waterproofing, the arrival at length at the point where 

 the head of the pool is within range these are a keen 

 delight. The pulses fly again when the hooked salmon 

 is felt, and the tightening line curves the rod from point 

 to hand. Exercise, indeed ! Half an hour's battle 

 with a fighting salmon, including a race in brogues of 

 a hundred yards or more over shingle or boulders will, 

 when the fish is gaffed and laid on the strand, find the 

 best of men well breathed and not sorry to sit him 

 down till his excitement has cooled and his nerves are 

 once more steady. 



Next in order, as a form of healthy exercise, comes 

 pike fishing, as practised by the spinner with small 

 dead fish, the artificial imitations of them, or the end- 

 less variations of the spoon, invented, it is claimed, by 

 an angler in the United States. Live baiting in a river 

 with float requires sufficient energy to walk at the 

 same speed as the current flows ; by still water or in a 

 boat the angler comes, of course, fairly into the com- 

 prehension of the lady who was introduced on another 

 page. He watches and waits, and the more closely he 

 imitates the heron in his motionless patience the better 

 for his chances. The troller of olden times was at any 

 rate always moving, and finer exercise for a winter 

 day than trolling four or five miles of river could not 

 be prescribed. But the gorge hook has gone out of 

 fashion and is discountenanced. 



Spinning is for pike what the artificial fly is for 

 salmon, the most scientific method, and followed perse- 

 veringly it is downright hard work, bringing, as the 

 use of the salmon rod does, all the muscles of the body 

 into play. The degree of exercise depends upon the 

 style adopted. Casting direct from the Nottingham 

 winch is less trying than the ordinary and more familiar 

 custom of working the incoming line dropped upon the 



