SPRING SALMON FISHING IN SCOTLAND. 



NOTE : // may help the reader to a clearer reading of these Scotch 

 writings to let him know that they were written for the Fishing 

 Gazette during one of my visits to Fortingall. 



CHAPTER I. 



SPINNING IN THE LYON POOLS THAT CAN BE FISHED FROM 

 KENMORE STONING A SULKY FISH. 



FOR over thirty years, without a break, I have been 

 on the Tay, or its tributary the Lyon, on the 

 opening day, doing my best to feel as young, and 

 to succeed as well, as in the years when I could 

 leap from rock to rock to gain an advantageous 

 point from which to work my lures. 



I have never failed to be more or less successful, 

 but, that it may be understood that I lay no claim 

 to superior talent, I must add that I have always 

 remained until Fortune favoured me a safe rule to 

 adopt, though sometimes an expensive one. 



In this matter of time I have the advantage 

 over such professional piscatorial writers as the 

 late, deservedly much-esteemed, generous-hearted 

 Wheeldon, who wrote most graphic articles on 



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