CHAPTER IV 



ON EIVERS 



Rage, Curiosity, or Playfulness? Flies How Salmon Flies 

 Differ from Trout Flies An Empiric Craft The Dusty 

 Miller's Success Salmon have Marked Preferences 

 Flies of the Seasons An Incident on the Tay Its 

 Possible Significance Is the Gut too Thick ? Eyesight 

 of Salmon Mr. Andrew Lang's Surmise The Weather 

 Trout, Char, and Salmon Where Salmon Lie Times 

 o* the Day Simultaneous Appetite or Anger Spring 

 Autumn Highland Rivers Clear Harlirig and Trol- 

 ling Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Curzoii, and Mr. Malloch A 

 Wonderful Discovery. 



IT was not from idle curiosity that we so closely 

 considered whether salmon when in fresh water feed 

 or abstain from food. Any understanding on that 

 problem at which we may arrive determines a very 

 practical question. If in rising when he sees the 

 invitation a salmon is moved by something other 

 than hunger, or what Mr. Carlyle called " artificial 

 appetite, 11 we are only, though the sport is centuries 

 old, mere novices in the craft of luring. The alterna- 

 tives to hunger or fictitious hunger have been dis- 

 cussed. The salmon may be inquisitive. He may 



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