PISCATORY DEVELOPMENT. 



hang five inches or so from the cast when attached, 

 the " tippets " used being of first quality to ensure the 

 needful amount of stiffness which is essential to avoid 

 entanglements and obnoxious twistings. In river 

 fishing, the angler accustomed to the single hand 

 trout rod will find but little difficulty in his path in 

 the pursuit of the salmon. His former ideas and 

 conceptions need expansion, though, as regards call 

 for skill, certainly not elevation ; his gossamer gut 

 is exchanged for the opposite extreme, the lightly 

 made, well-balanced, single-handed rod, is exchanged 

 for a double-handed weapon double the weight and 

 dimension, with which double the distance must be 

 covered in casting. If he couples with the foregoing, 

 a like advance in regard to manual exertion, in short, 

 with his entire physical and emotional organism, the 

 trout fisher will have comprehended the nature of 

 the distinctive elements of the two highest branches 

 in piscatory art. Entomology, it should not be 

 forgotten, is marked from the lists ~in the trout- 

 fishers' new regime as salmon-fisher, a knowledge of 

 meteorological changes only so far as they affect the 

 fish being needful. A study of the nomenclature of 

 the migratory and non-migratory orders of salmonidcz 

 leads the observer to this conclusion, that their 

 advancement in educational attainments, acquired 

 wiliness and keenness of demeanour, is not identical. 

 The location of the one permanently in fresh water 

 causes a continuous development of the ocular and 

 optical faculties ; whilst, upon the other hand, the 

 marine trips to fresh feeding grounds are so strikingly 



