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The anglers of the Canadian rivers are to 

 be congratulated on their freedom from the 

 vice of bait-fishing to which so many fisher- 

 men in the British Isles and Norway have given 

 way. Yet there are not wanting champions to 

 fight for the true faith ; notably Sir Herbert 

 Maxwell, who in a recent letter to the Field 

 deplored the degradation of a well-known tidal 

 pool in Norway, where the use of prawn and 

 minnow has entirely superseded fly-fishing, and 

 it is believed that fish will no longer rise to 

 the fly. It is a little difficult to understand 

 why fresh-run fish should be so influenced ; it 

 seems more probable that the fishermen are 

 affected rather than the salmon. 



What one does, others must do. It needs 

 a very strong mind to persevere with the fly 

 in water which is constantly raked with prawn 

 or gudgeon, and the result is that rivers are 

 more and more given up to the baser arts. It 

 is a pity that no such form of taboo as pre- 

 serves trout in an English chalk stream from the 

 dangerous attractions of worms and minnows 

 has grown up with regard to salmon. 



The first year we- were here I asked Lars if 

 salmon were ever killed with the prawn. He 



