many places where it is impossible to use other minnows. 

 The great secret in using it is, when you feel a tug to 

 give a slack line, so as to allow the fish to gorge it. 

 Then tighten your line, give a slight turn of the wrist, and 

 give and take till you land him. I believe many a good 

 fish is lost through the angler being too hasty. 



*UP 



IRELAND. 



I will now give a few anecdotes of my experience in 

 Ireland, which I have visited, on fishing expeditions, 

 numbers of times. I was there in 1851, the year of the 

 first Exhibition. It was my rod and line tempted me 

 there, but, being on the spot, I inspected the fishing tackle 

 department, where was an excellent show by most of the 

 principle tackle makers in the world. I met several 

 gentlemen anglers there, who, like myself, were much 

 interested in the sight. I showed them my books of 

 salmon and trout flies, when one of the gentlemen, a 

 cotton spinner from Lancashire, asked me where I came 

 from. I told him, and he then said : " I have frequently 

 seen your name in the * Field ' newspaper." He liked 

 the appearance of my flies better than any in the exhibi- 

 tion, and wished to know where I intended fishing, as he 

 should be pleased to accompany me, having, like myself, 

 come for fishing. Both being fond of the rod and line 



