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fish shop without lamenting that the silver beauties lying upon the 

 slabs were murdered without a chance for their lives. 



Trout and grayling will probably always hold their own. The 

 English trout streams are carefully preserved, added to which the 



skill required to entice successfully a fat yellow trout to 



Trout and • . . , , ^ t- i- 1 1 in 



^ ,. rise to a tmy midoe m one 01 our bnolish clear chalk 



Grayling. j & * 



streams calls for a deftness of hand and an amount of 

 skill that an ordinary yokel, or even a poacher, can rarely have had 

 the practice to attain to. 



I have just alluded to the deftness and skill necessary to hook 

 a trout on the dry-fly principle, and yet I have several times seen 



a good dry-fly fisher shape a bad salmon fisher. With 



Dry-fly and ^^^e trout flv there is the one motion — up and back ; 

 Salmon- 

 casting;, with the salmon -cast there are two motions — the up, the 



pause, and the then forward ; and it is curious how long 



the dry-fly fisher is in learning the salmon-cast, the truth being that 



in almost all instances the salmon lies further off in a river wider 



than the one he is accustomed to, and the long true line is necessary 



to reach it. 



On the other hand, so many amateur fishermen imagine that the 



great thing necessary in salmon-fishing is to throw as long a line 



as they can, and in many cases the fly and the line alight on the 



water all in a heap, and by the time the fly is what may be described 



as "fishing," it has passed over the lie of the salmon. The last 



thing to alight on the water should be the fly. and the lighter it 



falls, and the lighter the sportsman fishes, the greater success will 



attend his efforts. 



