ANGLING WITH WORM FOR SALMON. 137 



will cautiously give way to his motions, which appear 

 very capricious, allowing the line to follow him freely , 

 yet never permitting him to be altogether unfelt, 



Sometimes these motions will be continued for a 

 considerable time, five or even ten minutes, when he 

 will quit and leave it altogether. But more likely 

 he will attempt to swallow the whole bait, which he 

 generally at last succeeds in doing; and this motion 

 is understood by the angler from the particular 

 twitching the fish makes in gobbling it. The angler 

 at last feels that he has it pretty fast, and by a sud- 

 den resistence fixes him, when he is then run and 

 landed in the same manner as if hooked with fly. 



Salmon are very voracious in regard to the worm 

 bait. 1 -have known two fishers, each of whom has, 

 at periods more than twenty years apart, met with 

 the self same occurrence in the very same place 

 the Bayhill Cast, at Dryburgh Chain Bridge. The 

 fish took the bait, and was run sometime from near 

 the head to the foot of the stream, when by some 

 accident the line was broken, or cut on a rock, within 

 a foot or two of his mouth, when the fisher coolly 

 put on a new tackle and bait, went up and began 

 again at the head of the cast, and exactly on the same 

 spot, hooked him again with much less ceremony than 

 at the first, as the fish seized it this last time with 



