FISHING AT HOME AND ABROAD 

 By this time the sun was on the water, and the morning's fishing was 

 over. Two days later I was again on Aarnhoe, which I fished without 

 moving anything or seeing anything move, till the fly came over the exact 

 place where yesterday I had met the fellow with whom I was so soon to 

 part. Precisely the same thing happened; the fly was seized; the fish sailed 

 slowly up into the pool ; but on this occasion it remained there, so that in 

 less than a quarter of an hour Johann slipped the gaff into the broadside of 

 a 33 lb. salmon. 



We were discoursing of sportsman's luck when I wandered off into re- 

 miniscence. Luck counts for more in salmon-fishing than in any other 

 sport, especially as success depends upon uncontrollable conditions of 

 weather ; but luck is not everything. To enable the angler to take advantage 

 of fortune when she smiles, he should be at some pains to become 

 acquainted with the life -history, the habits and the moods of the creature 

 upon which he depends for sport. 



