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and Salmon may be taken by the Eel-bait. Salmon 

 will also in some waters take the Parr-tail, and 

 occasionally the Minnow ; but I believe that if Salmon 

 will take spinning bait at all the Eel-tail will in nine 

 cases out of ten be found the most killing, besides being 

 much the least trouble ; as, \yhen cnce baited, it is almost 

 everlasting. Eels also sufficient for the purpose can 

 almost always be procured by setting a night-line for 

 them, either in ponds or rivers. The spinning bait for 

 Salmon should be worked more slowly and gently than 

 that used in Pike fishing, and tJie line should be suffi- 

 ciently leaded to carry the bait nearly to the bottom of the 

 river. No general rules can be given as to the state of 

 water, or the season when Salmon will best take a spin- 

 ning bait. Different localities differ on these points. In 

 the Tweed, for instance, April, May, and sometimes 

 March, are considered the best months, and according 

 to Border canon, Tweed fish rarely take the spinnmg 

 bait when the water is discoloured, or beyond its ordi- 

 nary spring size. In the Clare-Galway river, Ireland, 

 on the contrary, the Eel-bait comes on principally late 

 in the season, and I have known fish killed by it in 

 October when the water was too much discoloured for 

 the fly. 



WORM-FlSHING. 



The above observations on the differences of water 

 and season for the spinning bait in different localities,. 



