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It is obvious that this mode applies to tidal waters and still 

 pools in rivers as well. It is much in vogue in Scottish lochs 

 (lakes), and is just as suitable in our own. Small flies are 

 the best, of course, and should never exceed one inch in 

 length. I have patterns of Land-locked Salmon flies with 

 yellow bodies, turkey wings, and claret body with mallard 

 wings which I have always used with success wherever tried. 



Trolling for Land-locked Salmon with live smelts, or phan- 

 toms, is a successful method in Weld and Sebago, and as a 

 dernier resort, a buoy may be baited with chopped fish. Set 

 the buoy in thirty to forty feet of water, and fish with the 

 same bait as you chummed with, or with live minnows, and 

 use just sinker enough to carry the line to the bottom. 

 When a fish is felt, let him have a pull at the hook, and then 

 raise the rod-tip gently and firmly. This will generally fasten 

 him, and the subsequent proceedings will be interesting. 



The number of expert Salmon anglers in this or any other 

 country is small, possibly because their experience is often 

 confined to a single river, or to rivers of the same temper. 



Rivers are as different as horses. Some are wild, im- 

 petuous, and untamable; others restive as an Arabian courser. 

 Some plod like a plow-horse, and others buck like a 

 broncho or kick like a mule. Some dash Jo the sea in a 

 straight-away course, with scarcely a break, and others 

 wind with a sinuous and solemn monotony, like blind cobs 

 in a tread-mill. Some are like circus horses, cavorting in 

 many an eddy, and flying leap, and others tumble and plunge 

 like colts at the hurdles. Some have breadth, and depth, 

 and sweep, while others are pent-up, curbed, and narrow, 

 churned into constant lather and foam. In some rivers the 

 pools are frequent and spacious, open to the sunlight, and 

 glinting with bright, pebbly bottoms; in others they are 

 short, angry, and broken, filled with debris and bowlders. 

 Some are overhung by protruding branches and thickets, while 

 others flow under the gloomy shadows of jutting cliffs. There 



