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fishing any pool may be advisable, and a frequent 

 change of flies when the salmon are not taking well 

 desirable. While dealing with this aspect of salmon 

 fishing it is by no means a bad plan for the fisherman 

 to fish up and across stream if no success can be 

 obtained by the ordinary method, in which case the 

 line must be drawn through the water by reeling in, 

 lifting the rod, or moving the point down-stream. I 

 would go still further, and advise the fisherman to 

 make an occasional cast as with a dry fly. I have 

 hooked salmon on the Test with a May-fly, and I 

 believe my experience is by no means uncommon. 

 Salmon frequently take the March Brown when fished 

 wet, and I believe they would do so were this fly 

 fished dry. 



THE RECORD TAKE OF SALMON 



When staying with Mr. Arthur Millington Naylor 

 as a fellow-guest of Mr. George Beck in 1897, and 

 after a hard day's elk shooting in the Namsen Lake 

 country, he told me the following particulars of his 

 record catch of salmon, which bears directly on the 

 possibility of taking fish when every circumstance 

 seems to be against you, and also on the fact that 

 salmon will "feed" whenever they enter any new 

 stretch of water in their up-stream journey, and that 

 this cannot be claimed as due to that exhaustion which 

 is considered by many fishermen to account for the 

 resuscitation for recuperative reasons of the feeding 



