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MODERN SEA FISHING 



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medium gut. In the chapter on making up tackle I have 

 described how casts should be twisted, flies tied on hooks, &c. 



A gaff or landing net must 

 be used according to the size 

 of the fish ; anything over five or 

 six pounds being best landed 

 with the former instrument. 

 The best gaffs for all kinds of 

 purposes are not those screwed 

 into sticks, but lashed on to a 

 handle similar to the one shown 

 in the illustration. When the 

 gaff, which should be of steel 

 (and not of iron, like one which 

 was sold me last summer, and 

 bent out nearly straight with the 

 weight of a lo-lb. fish), gets a 

 little rusty, give it a coat or two 

 of varnish. The varnish will sink into 

 the rust and make a very good protecting 

 surface. 



Not many people are aware that sal- 

 mon have been caught in salt water on 

 the fly. There are only a few places, so 

 far as I know, where this has been done ; 

 but in these places salmon are fished for 

 regularly in this way. But then, of course, 

 the sea is a big place, and the number 

 of inlets, sea-lochs, estuaries, and the 

 like, to which salmon resort in very 

 large numbers, is limited. One of the 

 smallest but most prolific salmon rivers in 

 the United Kingdom is the Grimersta, 



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