68 THE SALMON 



CHAPTER IV 



KOAY FISHING 



THE most satisfactory method of fishing for salmon 

 is, no doubt, casting, either from the bank or wading, 

 as described in the previous chapters but there are 

 rivers and some of the best and most sought after 

 where this is often impracticable, owing to the width 

 of the stream, the nature of the banks, and the posi- 

 tions of the pools in which the fish rest and take the 

 fly. I will briefly describe some examples of various 

 methods of boat fishing, mainly derived from my own 

 personal recollections. 



The first scene is a certain wide stretch of the Tay 

 not far from Uunkeld ; the time, I am sorry to say, 

 a good many years ago. A little above us on the hill, 

 among beautiful woods and grand Scotch firs, stands 

 an immense modern mansion, which, on close inspec- 

 tion, turns out to be a shell only, a still existing 

 example of the folly of beginning to build without 

 counting the cost ; and close beside it the picturesque 



