THE ANGLER'S SOUVENIR. 



chance of success, they will not be very likely to 

 notice him at the distance of twenty yards. When 

 the angler knows that salmon are in a pool, he 

 must not be content with making two or three 

 casts, as directed by mere book-makers, who pro- 

 bably may never have seen a salmon caught, but 

 fish the pool diligently again and again, making 

 his casts frequent ; and should he not succeed 

 with one fly, try another of a different shade. 



In dull weather, when unif ormly dark hazy clouds 

 are impending, and the barometer points steadily 

 to rain, both salmon and trout generally decline 

 taking any kind of bait or flies, whatever may be 

 the state of the water. On such days, the angler 

 may save himself the trouble of going to the water- 

 side except for the sake of exercise as he may 

 much more profitably employ himself at his inn, 

 if he be merely a temporary sojourner, in dressing 

 a few flies, looking over his tackle or his linen, or 

 writing to his male and female friends, cramming 

 the former with accounts of the loads of salmon 

 and trout which he has caught in his dreams ; and 

 soothing the ladies maids, wives, and widows, who 

 are disconsolately singing, from morning to night, 

 "Oh for him back again," with a touch of the 

 sentimental, either in verse or prose, accordingly 

 as he may be " i' the vein." 



With a twenty-feet salmon rod a twig which 

 requires two hands, and cannot be flourished about 

 as a gentleman switches his cane an expert angler 



