1 44 ANGLING. 



He recommends that a " pair of wings should be made of 

 the feathers of a landrail," (see chapter on "Artificial Flies, 

 and how to dress them,") " and on the bend of the hook put 

 one or two caddis. The head of one caddis should go up 

 close to the wings. Angle with a stiff rod, about fourteen 

 feet long, a foot-line, eight feet, and a hook Nos. 5 or 6. 

 Let the bait float down the stream, just below the surface, 

 then gently draw it up again, a little irregularly, by shak- 

 ing the rod, and if there be a fish, in the place it will be 

 sure to take it. If you use two caddis with the wings, 

 put the hook in at the head and out of the neck of the 

 first, and quite through the other from the head to the 

 tail. Two brandlings or red worms may be fished with in 

 the same way." I have caught roach frequently with a 

 house-fly and a caddis attached, by dipping ; but of the 

 merits of the above plan for trout I cannot speak from ex- 

 perience. Where there are no bushes or other shelter for 

 the angler, an artificial one may be made of a hurdle and 

 bushes, or other handy contrivance. It must, however, be 

 fixed some time before the angler commences operations. 



CHAPTER XVIIL 



FLY-FISHING. 



The Salmon, Hints on Fishing for. 



THE salmon is undoubtedly and pre-eminently the monarch 

 of the rivers and the streams. His size, vigour, grace, and 

 proportion stamp him as the " noblest Roman of them all." 

 Out of the water he has long enjoyed the highest reputa- 



