96 SALMONIA. 



POIET. I will take one or two casts; but 

 give me your fly: I like always to be sure 

 that the tackle is taking. 



HAL. Try at first the very top of the 

 pool, though I fear you will get nothing- 

 there ; but here is a cast which I think the 

 Highlander can hardly have commanded 

 from the other side, and which is rarely 

 without a good fish. There, he rose : a large 

 trout of lOlbs. or a salmon. Now wait a 

 few minutes. When a fish has missed the 

 fly, he will not rise again till after a pause 

 particularly if he has been for some time in 

 the fresh water. Now try him again. He 

 has risen, but he is a dark fish that has 

 been some time in the water, and he tries to 

 drown the fly with a blow of his tail. I fear 

 you will not hook him except foul, when 

 most likely he would break you. Try the 

 bottom of the pool, below where I caught 

 my fish. 



POIET. I have tried all the- casts and 

 nothing rises. 



HAL. Come we will change the fly for 

 that with which I caught my trout. 



