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out, with the whole train of flies, until almost at 

 right angles with the fisher ; still he proceeds, 

 keeping pace by this singular apparatus, which it 

 requires some degree of skill to manage. When 

 one fish is hooked, there is no necessity of draw- 

 ing it ashore immediately. 



Stoddart's Scottish Angler. 



Leistering Salmon. One who has not witnessed 

 it, will be surprised at the effect of a torch held 

 over a stream during a dark night. Without being 

 magical, it is astonishing; every pebble is re- 

 vealed, every fish rendered visible in places even 

 where the water is some fathoms deep. None of 

 these, however, occur in Yarrow ; in its most un- 

 fordable parts you will seldom meet with any very 

 profound or dangerous abysses. The leistering is 

 spearing salmon by torch light ; the fish are at- 

 tracted by the light. 



Stoddart's Scottish Angler. 



Native Fishing in the Massaroony. The pacou 

 with the hai-arry : the Indians select a part of the 

 falls where the weya (an aquatic vegetable eaten 

 by the pacou and other fish) is plentiful, they en- 

 close this place with a wall of loose stones, one 

 foot above the surface of the water, leaving spaces 

 for the fish to enter ; for these spaces they prepare 

 parrys, or wooden hurdles, and about two hours 



