68 TREATISE ON FLY-FISHING* 



from side to side, with the head and ground lines 

 of the net, as required. 



A clever poacher at Totnes, allows that he has 

 killed many salmon in the night, on the Dart, by 

 setting a trammel net at the lower end of the deep 

 pools, by sending in a dog at the upper end of 

 the pool, which dog he had trained to dive like an 

 otter. The fish, as soon as the dog dived, im- 

 mediately dashed down the stream, and were 

 taken in the net at the lower end of the pool. 



The Earl of Home, in a letter to the Earl of 

 Montague, dated 10th January, 183/, relates the 

 following history of a Newfoundland dog, which 

 belonged to his uncle. He knew the Monday 

 mornings as well as the fishermen themselves, and 

 used to go to the mill dam at Fireburn Mill, on 

 these mornings. He there took his station, at the 

 opening in the dam, to allow the salmon to pass, 

 and has been known to kill from 12 to 20 salmon 

 in a morning : the fish he took to the side. The 

 then Lord Tankerville instituted a process against 



