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to insure success, as may be seen by the following 

 anecdote : 



When the fish has taken the fly, to pull a hard 

 strain on the line would snap the tackle to pieces, 

 even were it made of wire ; ease your hand, and 

 let him rise ; take leisure, give him line, but do 

 not slack too fast, and in half-an-hour thou layest 

 him on the bank. Sir Walter Scott. 



Salmon Fishing with Spear. The salmon is 

 caught with a spear, which they dart at him as 

 he swims on the surface of the water. It is 

 customary also to catch him with a candle and 

 lantern, or wisp of straw set on fire ; for the fish 

 naturally following the light, are struck with the 

 spear, or taken in a net spread for that purpose, 

 and lifted with a sudden jerk from the bottom. 

 Some few years ago, there were taken in the 

 Tweed seven hundred fish at one hawl, but from 

 fifty to one hundred is frequent. 



Encyclopaedia Londinensis. 



Hunting Salmon. Hunting fish on horseback 

 seems a somewhat surprising sport ; yet this mode 

 has been adopted on the shallows at Whitehaven, 

 with considerable success. Taking advantage of 

 the retiring tide, persons have thus got between 

 the salmon and the sea, and have fairly coursed 

 them, until a spear could be accurately thrown : 



