Salmon Fishing. 1 07 



This reminds me of the fancy of another 

 Piscator, I have frequently met elsewhere, some- 

 what of the same kind. He had a particular 

 type of fly he never failed to throw at all times, 

 made of course of different sizes, according to 

 shifting circumstances. But though he thought 

 this fly unequalled, the very essence of the 

 success he looked for from it, lay in the implicit 

 faith of the fisherman himself. " Use it," he 

 would say, " but it must be with implicit faith ; 

 and you are sure to be rewarded sooner or 

 later." 



I only wish I could imitate my friend in his 

 faith (or fancy, I was about to say) ! 



Though, generally speaking, not fond of 

 change, when I first fix upon a fly at the 

 commencement of a day's fishing ; no sooner do 

 I begin to feel dissatisfied, than I cannot help 

 associating my want of success with some defect 

 in the fly I am using. And often and often 

 when trying one after another, all to no purpose, 

 I have returned to the first discarded one, and 



