CHAPTER XYIL 



DIFFERENCE IN FISH GAFFING SALMON THE 



REEL-CLICK. 



Doubt not, sir, but that Angling is an art, and an art worth 

 your learning : the question is, rather, whether you be capable 

 of learning it. [Sir Izaak Walton. 



one sense, all salmon, like all 

 men, are alike : but like all men, 

 also, they are very unlike in be- 

 havior under given circumstances. 

 I once brought a fifteen-pound 

 salmon to gaff in ten minutes, 

 and I have had a two hours' 

 struggle with others of no greater 

 weight; just as some men suc- 

 cumb when so much as a shadow 

 of adversity crosses their pathway, while others 

 fight on so long as a peg remains to hang a hope 

 upon. The former are the negatives of the race, 

 only useful in swelling the numerals of a census 

 table. The latter not only "conquer fate" by 

 their pluck and energy, but are the architects of 

 towns, cities, states and empires. It is only when 

 " Greek meets Greek " that there " comes the tug 

 of war," and it is only when the angler strikes a 



