CHAPTER IX 



SPINNING FOR SALMON 



SPINNING for salmon with artificial baits 

 cannot be considered so artistic a method 

 as fly -casting, and yet when fairly con- 

 sidered, there is a vast similarity between the 

 two. In either case it is a question of drawing 

 a " lure " through the water, and whether it 

 swims smoothly as in the case of the fly, or 

 spins while swimming as in the case of the 

 minnow, is of little consequence, as in effect 

 both achieve the same object, with this difference ; 

 that the minnow will often prove effective on 

 occasions when the fly will not, and vice versa; 

 therefore we welcome this addition to the methods 

 of angling for salmon. 



The man who can afford to pass months on 

 his river, and fish when he feels inclined, or only 

 when the water suits perfectly for fly-casting, 

 may elect to fish fly only, as the most pleasant 

 and simplest form of angling, and he is probably 

 right ; but the man who, after travelling a long 

 distance for a few days' fishing, finds the river 

 in a condition utterly hopeless for fly-fishing, is 



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