i So THE TROUT ARE RISING 



of each other. The newly married might do worse 

 than follow their example, for such partings mean 

 all the more happy meetings. I don't think she 

 caught anything, but she got rises from trout, 

 here and there, and she was very ambitious to 

 land one some day. This couple had come from 

 England to Scotland by motor-bicycle, and the 

 side-car enabled them to get from the hotel to 

 the best fishing grounds conveniently and quickly. 

 Great is the pride of the sportsman who sees 

 his son bring down his first pheasant, or bowl 

 over his first rabbit. I think it must be so 

 equally with the fond father whose daughter gets 

 her first fish. One father not Ions: a^o related in 



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The Field the achievement of his daughter, a 

 young lady of nineteen, who hooked a salmon on 

 the Don and played it unaided for five hours and 

 forty minutes ! It was a fish of twenty-six 

 pounds. 



A friend of mine in Birmingham sent me an 

 interesting account of his young daughter's first 

 trout, a three-quarter-pounder caught on the first 

 day she had a rod all her own. " With regard 

 to my daughter catching the three-quarter pound 

 trout : I had taught her to fish a few times when 

 I had been going for chub from a boat on the 

 Avon, but she had not had a rod of her own 

 until the day she caught this particular fish. We 

 had been fishing on a July afternoon on the 

 Warwickshire Blyth, each independently, and at 

 4.30 1 called her to come to tea at a cottage. On 

 the way there was a fair hole in the stream, and 1 



