ADJACENT RIVERS 55 



Salmon usually lie below weirs, and towards the 

 top of big pools, and have a fancy for the still 

 water beneath huge rocks or boulders. 



The best time of the day for angling for salmon 

 is between 7 and 1 1 o'clock in the morning and 

 from 4 o'clock in the afternoon till dusk ; but should 

 the water and weather be favourable, they may be 

 fished for throughout the day. 



Salmon usually decline to take when dark clouds 

 impend and the barometer falls steadily for rain, or 

 when the river is rising after rain ; but on a cloudy 

 day with wind from south, or south-west, and 

 occasional gleams of sunshine, the angler may 

 expect sport 



In angling for salmon with fly, cast the line 

 across the stream in a sloping direction, and work 

 fly up and down against the current, under the 

 surface of the water, gradually drawing it up stream, 

 towards the rod point. The angler should strike 

 on feeling the fish, or on seeing it descend, after 

 having seized the fly. Salmon frequently take a 

 sunken fly. 



Gaudy flies should be used on a bright day. 

 The writer killed a salmon last season over 20 lb., 

 and hooked another, with Silver Grey, in low 

 water, on a day of dazzling brilliancy. 



The angler who wishes to succeed should " keep 

 his fly upon the water." On two separate occasions 

 the writer hooked and killed a salmon at the very 

 moment of his departure, after hope deferred had 

 well nigh made the heart sick. They weighed 20 

 Ibs. and 18 Ibs. respectively. 



In angling for salmon with lob-worms, use hooks 

 No. 13 to 15 (Kendal size), dressed on strong 

 salmon-gut i yards long, with twisted gut taper 



