Salmon Fishing. 



taller, could continue fishing not the less com- 

 fortably with a nineteen-foot rod and heavier 

 tackle. I do not find however, that let the 

 fisherman be a Hercules, and his rod an oak 

 sapling, the length of line he can throw is so 

 superior, as to compensate for the extra encum- 

 brance of weight. 



On all ordinary occasions, I am satisfied to 

 be able to throw straight and well a line 

 from fourteen to sixteen yards, and, when 

 necessity demands, some three or four extra 

 yards, measuring from the point of the rod. 

 Many, I know, will contend that, twenty or 

 twenty-five yards they make nothing of ; but 

 "fancies" I fear, of the salmon-fishing fraternity, 

 sadly exceed the hard "facts? if faithfully 

 recorded. In several instances when I have 

 been standing by, and watching acknowledged 

 masters of the art throwing what they thought 

 unusually long lines, woefully have they been 

 disappointed, I may almost say, mortified, when, 

 after requesting me to measure them, they found 



