120 THE SALMON. 



his ken. Two flies, again, are more likely to attract 

 his attention than one. On the other hand, if 

 there be a rock, or a weed, or a post, you are sure 

 to be hung up on it, in which case you inevitably 

 lose your fish. This you constantly do at the last 

 moment by the disengaged fly catching in the 

 landing-net, a weed, a twig, or the bank itself, up 

 which the fish is actually being raised. Again, it 

 not unfrequently happens that while you are most 

 artistically playing your fish on the stretcher, your 

 fish all unconsciously is as artistically, and with 

 equal effect, playing the dropper the result, the 

 hooking of a second fish of equal or larger size, 

 the two immediately commencing a wild round 

 dance, diversified with occasional antagonistic 

 tugs, and ending with breakage of tackle and the 

 escape of both. There is, however, sometimes an 

 advantage in fishing with two flies, which, though 

 it must come under the category of a " fluke," may 

 fairly be placed to the credit side, as may flukes in 

 skittles, croquet, or billiards. Without, therefore, 

 condemning the use of two flies, or altogether 

 ignoring their advantages on some occasions, I 

 advocate and practice the fishing with only one. 



A fish foul-hooked, if small, affords capital sport. 

 I assume that most of my readers know that a fish 

 is foul-hooked when, by some chance, the barb 



