128 TROUT ANGLING. 



month. In low waters, I have in such a way caught 

 many salmon with the trout fly, on which, at such 

 times, they occasionally feed ; and therefore, in 

 Tweed trouting, I have always used a wheel line long 

 enough to secure any salmon accidentally so hooked. 



The manner, too, of angling for trout, as a driver 

 lashes stage-coach horses is ridiculous, as if a large 

 trout were foolish enough to take a fly so offered. 

 The angler is still more foolish to strike the fly from 

 off the gut in a fish's mouth, and come home with a 

 tale of sad mishap that a^great salmon had broken his 

 tackle. An amateur angler here last season came from 

 the water with a sad complaint against a monstrous 

 salmon that had robbed him of his bait hook and 

 gut line; and what a weight he was to be sure! My 

 son, who had happened to tie on the angler's hook 

 in the morning, trouting a little next day with the 

 same roe bait at the spot, caught a trout not half a 

 pound weight with the identical hook stuck in its 

 stomach, and the thread of gut hanging nine inches 

 from its mouth. 



But constant and successful trout angling in the 

 Tweed, or other pretty large rivers, requires the fisher 

 to trash himself rather unmercifully, as to secure 

 general success, it is absolutely necessary often to 

 wade deep and long to get to where the trouts may 



