SALMON FLY, SPINNING LURE, ETC. 345 



Fly fishing for salmon differs from spinning only in the 

 method by which the lure is presented to the fish, and were 

 it not for the fact that the spoon or minnow bristles with an 

 armament of triangles, the sporting elements of the two 

 methods spinning and fly fishing would be identical. 



As regards the relative disturbance made when fly fishing 

 and when casting a spinning lure over a pool, there is, if 

 anything, less made by the latter than by the former 

 method, for although the spinning lure alights with a greater 

 splash than the fly, the reverse is the case when we come to 

 consider the commotion made by the lines which are 

 respectively used in the two methods. The tapered salmon 

 line used in fly fishing undoubtedly falls with a much heavier 

 splash than a spinning line, and it makes a commotion 

 when it is picked off the water which is entirely absent when 

 spinning is adopted. 



THE SELECTION OF A SALMON LURE 



Beyond the experience of the local fisherman as to the 

 most killing fly for the hour on his own water, there are, so 

 far as my experience goes, no definitely known means of 

 determining the salmon fly or even the lure which will be 

 the successful one with which to fish, and therefore if the 

 right one be chosen it may well be considered a matter for 

 congratulation. 



When Dry Fly Fishing for trout there are always certain 

 indications which will guide the fisherman in making a 

 correct choice of the one and only fly which will prove 

 successful ; but when salmon fishing, beyond the experience 

 that riverside knowledge may impart, or that local experi- 

 ence claims no definite means of ascertaining which will 

 prove the successful lure have yet been suggested. 



There may and may not be some sound reason, and 

 possibly some well-considered experience, on which the 



