298 SALMON AND SEA TROUT FISHING. 



from 1 1 Ibs. downwards ; their combined take being 

 under two-thirds of the yield of the rod and line. 



Spinning and Trolling continues still a common 

 practice upon most waters in fishing for the higher 

 orders of salmonidce. Upon lochs, as also the estuaries 

 of salmon waters, a boat is propelled with the bait 

 trailing at a distance of fifty yards or so in its rear. 

 "Whenever the fish refuse to rise, spinning may with 

 advantage be resorted to ; indeed, midwater fishing 

 may, under these circumstances, often be practised 

 with signal success, though as a general thing, it yields 

 not the sport of surface fishing. Small fish of almost 

 any description, when from four to six inches in 

 length, may be used. The best artificial baits are 

 the metal ones, the " Universal," " Excelsior," 

 " Devon," etc. The Derby Killer is also good, 

 salmon size. 



The Red Caterpillar is as killing a lure for salmon 

 and sea trout, when they are not rising, as it is for 

 common brown trout, etc. It is used in precisely the 

 same way, but is constructed, as a matter of course, 

 much larger ; the loop too, at the head, should be of 

 double salmon gut. Black palmers, with silver twist, 

 are also good, but not to be compared with the red, 

 as the habitual users of both can testify. If there is 

 anything objectionable in the use of the Caterpillar 

 for sea trout and salmon, it is the partiality of the 

 smaller fry for them ; they, especially the brown 

 trout, are really boring in their incessant attentions. 

 At the end of a day upon the Awe in Argyleshire, 

 when we had been more than usually pestered in this 



