CHAPTER IX. 



TBE SALMON. 



Sahits and Haunts — Waders and Dress — Rod and TacMe for 

 Fly-fishing — Knots — Standard Flies — Casting and Working 

 the Fly — Striking, Playing, and Gajffing the Fish — Spinning, 

 or Trolling — Fishing with Prawn and Worm — Trent Method 

 of Salmon-fishing. 



the end of the procession of game fish 

 comes, king of all, the mighty salmon. 

 Need I describe him ? I think not. Of his 

 life-history a brief account is given in 

 Chapter I. More usefal to the angler 

 will be a short description of his haunts 

 and habits, so far as they are involved in 

 his capture. Had I some ten times the 

 space to devote to this one fish, I could have touched upon 

 the numberless controversies respecting his habits and the 

 ways of angling for him; but I am here obliged to limit 

 myself — not, perhaps, to the reader's sorrow — to the best 

 advice I am capable of giving in the matter of tackle, and an 

 account of the principles relating to salmon fishing which are 

 generally accepted by the most experienced anglers of the day. 



Now as to his habits and haunts. His abiding-places in 

 rivers are usually the pools, in some of which he will never rise 

 to a fly — why, no one knows. In this he somewhat resembles 

 barbel. The angler who fishes a strange river will therefore lose 



