TAKING A SALMO HUCHO. 229 



peculiar to the salmo genus, and, if he catches 

 sight of me, will certainly not run at the bait. 



ORN. You spin the bleak for him, I see, 

 as for a great trout. O ! there ! he has run 

 at it and you have missed him. What a 

 fish! You surely were too quick, for he 

 sprung out of the water at the bleak. 



HAL. I was not too quick ; but he rose 

 just as the bleak was on the surface, and 

 saw me ; and now he is frightened, and gone 

 down into the deep water. We must retire 

 till we see him feeding again, which will be, 

 I hope, in some minutes, for his violence 

 shows he is not yet satisfied. 



POIET. I think I saw him moving in 

 another part of the pool : it is now ten 

 minutes since we saw him last. 



HAL. You are right; he is again on the 

 feed, and in a place where we have a bet- 

 ter chance of hooking him, as the water is 

 deeper and in the shade. He has run again 

 at the bleak, but only as it shone on the 

 surface but he is not frightened. Ah! he 

 has taken it, and is floundering and strug- 

 gling! He is a powerful fish. 



