260 PERSEVERANCE REQUIRED. 



of six, nine, and ten pounds respectively, in less than an 

 hour. 



As the waters to which salmon and eriox generally 

 resort are usually wide and deep, the angler and his 

 tackle do not create so much disturbance and alarm as 

 they do in smaller rivers ; hence it is not a matter of such 

 paramount importance to gain the first of the water as it 

 is in trout-fishing, and there will be nearly as much 

 chance of sport with two or three rods, as if the fisher had 

 the whole river to himself, provided the flies he uses differ 

 in colour from theirs ', save and excepting always in such 

 pools where they have hooked and played a fish. 



Salmon-fishing of all other sports requires the exer- 

 cise of a vast amount of patience and perseverance, as it 

 is no uncommon thing for the sportsman to ply his rod for 

 hour after hour, and for day after day, without success ; 

 while the produce of a lucky hour or two may perhaps 

 put him in possession of as much or a greater weight of 

 spoil than he can carry home. Salmon are even more 

 capricious in their humours for rising than trout. During 

 the whole of a most likely day with wind, weather, and 

 water in the best possible order, to all appearance the 

 angler may thrash the water with the most indomitable 

 industry, and perhaps not a single fin will stir from 

 their moody solitudes in the deep, when all at once, 

 as if by some magical influence, perhaps towards the 

 approach of evening, or it may be at any hour of the 

 day, many salmon in the water will be on the alert 

 and rise at the fly, no matter what colour it may be, 

 with the greatest avidity. The same precisely applies 



