PERCH AND PIKE FISHING. 11$ 



the water two yards from the bank. I send up 

 to the farm, and the grieve comes down with 

 a " muck-hack " to draw out the fish. I am 

 doubtful if the implement is sufficient. Master 

 Pike soon settles the question. As it is drawn 

 gently over his back, he begins to kick and 

 plunge, and the gut breaking, the fish slips off 

 the "hack" into the slime and "glaur," and 

 disappears. That was the last we saw of him. 



Fishing below the Parritch Haugh one night 

 when dark, I hooked two Perch on my trout 

 flies, and after some difficulty succeeded in creel- 

 ing one of them, the largest Perch I ever saw 

 taken from the Earn. This is the only time 

 that I remember catching a Perch with fly. I 

 I have no doubt Perch would sometimes take 

 the artificial fly, if it was allowed to sink a little 

 below the surface. 



A little further down, at the pool below "The 

 Troughs," there are good-sized Perch, but the 

 bottom here is full of paling wire and other 

 etceteras brought down by the winter floods, 



