CHAPTER VI 



How to Get Them 

 SALMON 



WITH THE FLY 



There are two methods beside fly fishing for 

 salmon that may be called legitimate, though not 

 practised so much in this country as in Great 

 Britain. They are spinning or trolling with min- 

 nows or the prawn, and also still-fishing with 

 worms, and the aristocratic angler 

 knows too well that two other methods 

 of taking salmon are practised more largely here 

 than abroad, that is, netting and spearing. Thou- 

 sands of fine salmon are by these means taken 

 from the luring fly. 



There are, it is probable, no two reasonable 

 anglers who will not differ regarding flies. My own 

 experience is not wide, for the few fish I have killed, 

 as it happens, were all landed on one fly, 

 o f different sizes, that is, the silver doc- 

 of Flies tor ; yet the most famous master and ex- 

 perienced salmon fisher, Major Tra- 

 herne, mentions it not in his list of taking flies, but 

 Mr. Dean Sage, and many others, place the silver 

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