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ten pounds or more, several down-streamers 

 with poles ' far-off fishers ' have returned 

 with pocket, poke, or basket of par I and often 

 with only a few miserable trout of ounces. 



We don't grudge them their ' sport ' far 

 from it; but we do object to be denounced 

 as we once were, to our knowledge, thus : 

 1 Oh, I know these gentlemen ' (we were 

 pleased at this saving clause) c were fishing 

 with salmon roe. I know it. They could 

 not kill these trout any other way/ with vain 

 repetitions harping on the same miserable 

 and jealous chord. The date was mid- 

 summer, the river low 0.0.0. of scale 

 (q.v.). We cannot therefore accuse the de- 

 tractor of ' Honi soit que mal y pense! 

 ' Gentleman (?) of the salmon-roe-persuasion/ 

 please tell our readers if salmon roe is a good 

 lure under these circumstances, or, failing 

 knowledge on that point, please tell them 

 whether it is a killing bait in Spey, say 

 around Eothes or Aberlour, ' earlier or 

 later in the season in a drumly water ! ' 

 Only once having used it in our life, and 

 then ( jist for the raal curiosity o' the thing ' 

 and not at midsummer we are not in a 

 position to educate as regards it. 



