34 MOOSE-HUNTING, SALMON-FISHING, ETC 



leaving a disgruntled-looking chap on the 

 shore. Sol consoled me with a sympathetic 

 " That's too bad altogether ! " 



Header, if you are a sportsman of expe- 

 rience, it is more than probable you know 

 what the "loop on the reel" means. This 

 trick is caused by the hasty winding of a slack 

 line on the reel by forming a loop which is 

 bound in its parts by different successive 

 layers on the line, and is often difficult to get 

 clear when there is no strain on it. I confess 

 to disappointment in the loss of that fish, but 

 he kept me busy while we were attached to 

 each other. Luck seemed against me, but 

 I never handled a wilder fish. We next 

 started for Shoal Ground a mile above Poltz. 

 On the way there a large rock, standing some 

 12 feet from the shore, is passed, its top 

 being generally out of the water. The stream 

 is moderately swift by it, and although I had 

 often passed there, I had not thought it a spot 

 where salmon would rest ; nor had Sol. This 

 morning, as we came to it, Sol stopped the 

 boat, and I put on a trout fly, thinking some 

 of those speckled fellows, for which the 

 Medway in those days was famous, might be 



