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PART IV.—SALMON AND TROUT 

 FISHING. 



CHAPTER I. 



The sport of fishing — -How to fish — The rod — ^Selection of a rod — 

 Wood for rods — Washaba — Greenheart — Composite rods — Castle 

 Connell rods — Rod-rings — Trout rods — Special rods for special 

 trout — Description of above specially made rod — Rod to be pro- 

 portionate to strength of fisherman — Value of Castle Connell rod- 

 Scotch lairds and heavy rods — Over-rodded — Evil of using too 

 heavy a rod — Learning to cast — Various rods for various kinds of 

 fishing — Fighting fish — A game sixteen-pounder — -'When the wind 

 blaws cauld ' — A sudden show of fish — 'Two to one, bar one '■ — 

 Fish indifferent to cold — Long rods when necessary — Length of 

 salmon rods- — Swinging a fish into still water — -Lightly-hooked fish 

 — Weight of rods— Spliced rods — Macdonald of Inverness — Rod- 

 makers should be fishermen — Rod-boxes — Pliant and stiff rods — 

 Switching — Trials of temper — Sense of sight in fish — Vision of 

 trout — Refraction — Growth and size of trout — Colour and feeding 

 — English and Scotch trout— Increase of numbers and decrease 

 in size of trout — Loch Auchnanuilt — Loch Achilty — Old Inn at 

 Strathpeffer — Reels — Mr. Malloch's ' sun and planet ' reel — Length 

 of line for salmon and trout-fishing — Spinning with a fly. 



Many a well-known hunting-man has ere this taken 

 to the sport of fishing with a zest but little inferior to 

 that which he would display after the best of foxes 

 over the best of countries, and no one who has ever 

 had the good fortune to experience the intense excite- 

 ment which a good fresh-run salmon can afford will be 



