THE SALMON. 5 



All these flies are tied on Phillips's hooks, plain 

 shape, C C, and the next largest size. 



The best plan to adopt, before going to any coun- 

 try for the purpose of salmon-fishing, is, to furnish 

 yourself well with the very best hooks, gut, feathers, 

 lines, hitches, rings, two or three reels and gaff-hooks, 

 and take care that your gaff, which should have no 

 barb, be made of good stuff, and well tempered, that 

 it may neither break nor bend when in the act of 

 landing a heavy fish ; and when you arrive at your 

 fishing-ground, whether in Ireland or Scotland, you 

 should immediately engage a good fisherman to at- 

 tend you, who will show you the flies proper to be 

 used for the water, as well as the different catches, 

 pools or stands, or you might be wasting some time 

 in fishing water where there was no probability of a 

 salmon, or you might be fishing to no purpose in 

 consequence of using flies not adapted to the water. 

 Your salmon-line should be made of silk wholly, for 

 if silk and hah' are mixed, one is very apt to cut the 

 other, when there may be a great strain upon it 

 from a heavy fish. 



The following flies, varying the size of the hooks, 

 will kill salmon in almost all rivers. 



