38 SALMONIA. 



PHYS. I am well pleased. 



HAL. There are many larger trouts here ; 

 go on fishing, and you will hook some of 

 them. And when you are tired of this 

 rapid, you will find another a quarter of a 

 mile below. And continue to fish with a 

 short line, and drop your fly, or let it be 

 carried by the wind on the water, as lightly 

 as possible. Well, Poietes, what success ? 



POIET. I have been fishing in the stream 

 above ; but the flies are so abundant, that 

 the large fish will not take my artificial fly, 

 and I have caught only three fish, all of 

 which the fisherman has thrown into the 

 water, though I am sure one of them was 

 more than 21bs. 



HAL. You may trust his knowledge : 

 with a new angler, our keeper would be apt 

 rather to favour the fisherman than the fish. 

 But we will have all fish you wish to be 

 killed, and above 21bs., put into the well of 

 the boat, where they can be examined, and, 

 if you desire, weighed and measured, and 

 such kept as are worth keeping. No good 

 angler should kill a fish, if possible, till he is 



