5 8 Scotch Loch-Fishing. 



and when removing the lure from his mouth, 

 you will find it much safer to have previously 

 put the foot-spar between his jaws to prevent 

 him getting at your fingers. 



There is a fly, if such it can be called, used 

 in pike-fishing. This % resembles a natural in- 

 sect as much as a tea-pot resembles an elephant, 

 but it does attract pike in the same way, we 

 suppose, that a piece of red flannel will attract 

 a mackerel. If our readers wish to try it, they 

 can buy it at almost any tackle shop. Pike 

 are to be found in almost all lochs, though in 

 the more frequented of our Scotch waters they 

 are being slowly but surely exterminated. In 

 others, again, they reign almost alone. But 

 pike-fishing by itself is a poor affair, and we 

 advise our readers only to take to it when they 

 can do nought better. If any of them wish to 

 go below the level of pike -fishing, we must 

 refer them to the copious instructions of many 

 books, from Isaak Walton downwards. For 

 ourselveS, when it comes to bait -fishing ex- 

 cept in running water, when worm-fishing is 

 an art we prefer catching whitings and had- 

 docks in some of our beautiful salt-water lochs, 

 to all the perch, roach, chub, and such -like, 



