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with untying the rope when I went out to 

 fish, only to find it put out again on my next 

 appearance. It is difficult for a stranger to 

 get at the rights and wrongs of such a case. 

 I gather that it is necessary for the district 

 council to pass a bye-law, prohibiting such 

 obstructions. It does not seem equitable for 

 a chance comer to be able so to interfere with 

 the fishery, and the free passage of boats. 



Since writing my remarks on salmon feeding 

 in fresh water, 1 I have read a recent American 

 book, " Salmon and Trout," by Dean Sage and 

 others (New York, 1902), in which the views 

 expressed on this question are so similar to my 

 own, that they appear to me eminently reason- 

 able. This testimony from the other hemisphere 

 is the more emphatic as it is based on the ex- 

 perience of a fly-fisher. The writer states that 

 in the Atlantic rivers of North America bait 

 fishing for salmon is almost unknown ; though 

 he mentions successful experiments with various 

 lures from a chunk of raw beef to a live butter- 

 fly. This catholicity of taste brings to mind 

 the saying of an Irish gillie, that " the salmon 

 is the hungriest baste that walks the earth." 



1 See Chapter II. 



