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gut, as well as your silk lines, when not in use, should be wrapped 

 in wash leather and kept in boxes. On your return from fishing, the 

 silk line should be wound off on a frame, or the back of a chair, until 

 dry ; if left wound on the reel, in a damp state, it will very soon get 

 rotten. 



(K.) 



To preserve Silk Salmon-lines. 



Soak them for a few hours in prepared linseed-oil, and then wind 

 them off on a frame till dry : if you fish much, this should be done 

 twice in the season. 



(L.) 



Loch Maree, Ross-shire. 



"River Ewe. This was a favourite station of the late Sir Hum- 

 phrey Davy, and the river Ewe is one of the most famous salmon- 

 streams in Scotland. The angling portion from its mouth upwards 

 is but limited in extent (though inexhaustible in resources), being ere 

 long crossed by a diagonal stone dike, with wily cruives to catch the 

 salmon. 



"In the autumn of 1834, an English gentleman killed in the 

 river Ewe, in a few weeks, one hundred grilse and salmon ; and the 

 late Sir Hunter Mackenzie is said to have frequently killed twenty in 

 a day." ' Voyage round the Coast of Scotland,' by Jas. Wilson. 



(M.) 



How to make a Landing-net from a square piece. 



" Net a piece of dead netting of any number of loops in the row, 

 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, but always observe an odd number: net 

 double the number of rows save one, i. e., 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29, 

 that you have netted loops : this done, draw out the foundation-string 

 and fix it in the middle of the square piece and net round and round it. 



