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ful Jock Scott pulled out another sixteen 

 pounder. 



Since then many a good salmon has fallen to 

 my share out of those pools, both with fly and 

 garden fly, the latter which I for one count to 

 be the most dexterous art of the two; but that 

 day of sunshiny September years ago, the 

 threshold to me of a life's friendship and so 

 many happy days, stands out like a high peak 

 in a range of beautiful hills. 



A year or two after this famous first time, I 

 got the heaviest salmon I have yet caught, out 

 of the same river. He weighed 27 lb., a 

 great old fish with a mouth like a shark. It 

 took me fifty minutes to play and land him, 

 and before the end I wondered which of us 

 would die first. 



Were I asked to define the different 

 pleasures of salmon and trout fishing, I would 

 say, speaking for myself, that I delight in 

 catching salmon but I prefer fishing for trout. 

 The labour and physical fatigue of salmon 

 fishing are so much greater that one requires 

 the stimulus of success as encouragement ; 



