AN ANGLER'S SEASON 

 CHAPTER I 



JANUARY 



At Dawn of the Opening Day On the way to a Famous 

 Loch Speculations The Scene at Kenmore A 

 Picturesque Libation Loch Tay Traces Afloat A 

 Salmon on Captured Another Battle Trolling- 

 Rods : a Technical Problem Suggested Solution 

 Loch Lures Playing a Salmon What " Minnows" 

 Are Which is the Right One ? 



"Tnis is just as good a First Day as 

 the Twelfth!" exclaimed Master Lindesay, 

 one of my host's two sons. He meant 

 that it was not less joyously exciting. A 

 fly bearing the heavily-coated figure of a 

 man and the long case of a salmon-rod 

 had just, in the dim dawn, shot in advance 

 of our carriage. At that unfamiliar hour, 

 in the middle of winter, it was novel and 

 stimulating to be off to a sport which is 



