46 Where to Fish for Salmon. 



spoken of the Luing and the Elchaig ; in both 

 rivers, when the fish were in a taking humour, in- 

 variably the Silver or the Blue Doctor would raise 

 them and kill not only salmon but sea trout, and 

 although there was a certain dark fly most deadly 

 for sea trout, yet for the salmon we would con- 

 stantly try other flies without effect, change to the 

 Doctor and up they would come, and if the river 

 happened to be big so much the bigger the fly. 

 I discovered this by one day fishing a pool most 

 carefully with a very favourite fly without any 

 effect ; I changed it for the Blue Doctor, and I 

 immediately rose four fish and hooked three of 

 them. Not thinking enough of this, on another 

 day I fished the pools and runs with a fly I have 

 usually found most killing in the rivers of the west 

 coast, without a rise ; I then changed to the Blue 

 Doctor, and killed in a very short time a fine 

 salmon and four or five good sea trout. 



