I. 



FLY FISHING FOR SALMON. 



" The salmon's praises to my verse belong, 

 King of the streams, glory of our song ! " 



The Angler, 



" O bliss divine ! 

 A salmon flound'ring on my line." 



|HE salmon is accounted the king of 

 fresh water fish;" so wrote Izaak 

 Walton, and so it continues to the 

 present time. 

 In the early days of angling for this fish, the 

 chief bait was a lobworm. " He is caught," says 

 Walton, " as the trout, with a worm and minnow, 

 which some call a pink, or with a fly, but not 

 often." 



Frank also ("Northern Memoirs") says, "But 

 the ground bait was of old the general practice, 

 and beyond dispute brought considerable profit, 

 which happ'd in those days, when the curiosity of 



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