Salmon Fishing. 2 r 



or four long sweeps only across the pool or 

 stream with (to me at least) a painful amount 

 of deliberation, and others so rapid in their 

 movement of the fly, as to be wearisome to 

 the eye of the spectator. 



The "via media" in this, as in more impor- 

 tant matters, I believe to be the best. Of 

 course, if I have a well-nigh dead sheet of 

 water to fish, I am all the more active in work- 

 ing the fly ; if a lively stream, the less so. In 

 water which is fished by others, as well as 

 myself, and more especially if close upon the 

 heels of a brother-angler, I generally endeavour 

 to work the fly in a manner distinct from his, 

 provided he has had no offer. 



One of the resources I have generally found 

 pleasant, seldom irksome, when precluded from 

 fishing, and confined to one room in a lodging, 

 is fly-tying. Hours upon hours have I spent 

 in this undeniably innocuous occupation, to say 

 the least of it. Having tied my own trout- 

 flies for many years, I found it as easy, if not 



