LOCH -FISHING. 1?1 



in large lochs, a green body is also very killing. In 

 fishing a loch where the trout are small, diminish the size 

 of your hook ; even in river-fishing, I seldom use any but 

 those I have named, only much smaller and without the 

 mohair adding a hare's-ear body and woodcock wing 

 early in the season, and a mouse body and snipe wing at a 

 later period. 



Should the loch you are fishing contain sea-trout or 

 salmon, ascertain from any good fisher in the neighbour- 

 hood what are the most killing flies, and tie them for your- 

 self. Should you not be " up to this," beg, borrow, or buy 

 them from Mm. In fishing with a long line, from a boat, 

 let the trail be either a sea-trout or salmon-fly ; but if 

 throwing from shore, never use the latter except by itself. 

 When a salmon rises, whether in a loch or a river, you may 

 allow him a second or two longer than a trout. He may 

 be safely permitted to turn before you strike. A two- 

 handed rod, large reel with plenty of line, and the lightest 

 tackle are necessary. 



If the wind is so high as to cause decided waves upon 

 one of these small lochs, you will succeed much better 

 with the minnow-tackle than the fly ; indeed, the best plan 

 then is to troll for pike, with a par : they always take 

 best in high wind, but are so capricious that you may have 

 three runs in half-an-hour on one day, and perhaps not 

 one in several apparently favourable days. High wind is 

 prejudicial to fly-fishing in lochs where the trout are large, 

 because it scatters them into unlikely places ; and being, 

 of course, much fewer in number than when small, you are 



