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days, during the summer, and will sometimes prove 

 highly successful in the evenings following sultry noons. 



The greater part of our English anglers make a great 

 fuss about the proper flies for salmon ; whereas the Scotch 

 anglers, who are very skilful, and possess many admi- 

 rable qualifications for the sport, content themselves with 

 either a heron's or a bittern's hockle, or the red feather 

 from the wing of a turkey-cock, which answer for the 

 wings j while a little fine wool, of a sulphur yellow 

 (sometimes rather deeper), makes the body of such a fly 

 as the salmon seem to relish greatly. The Scotch anglers 

 all busk their own flies, for bo they call the art of manu- 

 facturing them. 



In the morning, that is, so soon as you can after the 

 day dawns, your best sport will be with the worm. For 

 this purpose take two well-scoured lols, run one up (as 

 described in the directions for baiting) above your hook, 

 which should be No. 1, or No. 2, and let its tail hang 

 down, and cover the second worm, which should be 

 threaded so as to occupy your hook entirely, and to have 

 about half its length, or less, pendent. 



Your gut may be treble, but should at least be double, 

 for about six or seven feet. At a foot distance from your 

 hook, put on a swan-shot j and before you loop your line 

 on to the swivel, which should, in this branch of angling, 

 be at the top of your gut, slip on a coffin- lead, already 

 described, to sink your bait so as to play on the bottom. 

 The swan-shot will keep the lead from going too low, 

 but will not fix it, nor prevent the line from drawing 

 through when a fish bites. 



Let the above point be ever attended to j that is, never 

 to attach your coffin-lcadj or any other heavy weight, to 



your 



