2Q2 SALMON AND SEA TROUT FISHING. 



intelligence, demand the concentration of the whole 

 of the faculties, both physical and mental. The 

 gradual development of scientific knowledge grants 

 us further instalments and extensions of power, which 

 necessitate an increasing application and attention 

 to rightly develop. Each and every pursuit, no 

 matter whether recreative or industrial, ranks without 

 distinction under this general rule. Salmon fishing 

 can therefore offer no exception. Some few years 

 since there were methods in common every-day use 

 for the capture of the salmo-salar> then looked upon 

 as being perfectly legitimate, but that are now 

 branded as illegal by national statute.* Primitive 

 and unsportsmanlike methods of taking fish have 

 been more and more discarded, as years roll on, in 

 every branch of the " gentle art." The more general 

 impression of the popular mind is, that these semi- 

 poaching methods are the more successful ones from 

 a pot-hunting standpoint. A supposition true in the 

 abstract only, as we will proceed to instance. The 

 medley of modes of taking fish by means other than 

 legitimate angling for, and thus attracting and 

 beguiling fish, are not included in the scope of 

 observations advanced here or elsewhere through this 

 book. The instance we have promised to relate 

 transpired upon one of the Black Lakes more years 

 since than we would care to count, and the point in 

 the incident was repeatedly confirmed upon Lochs 

 Awe, Nell, Ness, Kalliper, and others. The eye 



* " Otter " trailing, salmon, and other r^-fishing have recently 

 been added to the prohibited lists. 



