50 AN ANGLER'S SEASON 



these fish rise, they prefer to lie in places 

 where the water is lively, or studded with 

 rocks, and fairly deep. 



Still, although apparently lazier, the 

 trout is not less game than the salmon. 

 In proportion to the weights, he seems 

 to be rather gamer. Some say that you 

 should bring a salmon to the gaff in a 

 time measured at the rate of a minute to 

 each pound of his weight. On the test 

 of experience, one feels this to be scant 

 allowance ; but it is evidently the accepted 

 rule. Who would undertake to land a 

 two-pound trout in two minutes? On 

 the day mentioned it took ten minutes to 

 capture one which weighed 1 Ib. 15^ oz. 

 That, it is true, may be deemed a mis- 

 leading suggestion. A trout five times 

 the weight would not have taken five 

 times as long to land. The strength of 

 fish does not increase in proportion to 

 weights. A two-pound trout may be as 

 difficult to bring ashore as a five-pounder, 

 and a twelve-pound salmon may fight as 

 well as one much heavier. 



