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some of the Shetland islands, who in using it resort at 

 full tide to the cliffs and rocks, remote, in many in- 

 stances, from a discharge or breeding stream, and angle 

 with line and float as one would do for perch and other 

 fresh-water fish. 



I have been told also by an excellent angler who has 

 fished a good deal in Norway, that, on one of its nume- 

 rous fiords, when the tide was ebbing at a prodigious 

 rate, he on several occasions caught, with a salmon fly 

 having its wings tied down over the bend of the hook, 

 both sea-trout and grilses, the depth of water where 

 they rose being upwards of a hundred fathoms. These 

 fish were evidently near the surface, on the out-look for 

 fry of some description. 



