18 THE TROUT ARE RISING 
of each other. The newly married might do worse 
than follow their example, for such partings mean 
all the more happy meetings. I don’t think she 
caught anything, but she got rises from trout, 
here and there, and she was very ambitious to 
land one some day. This couple had come from 
England to Scotland by motor-bicycle, and the 
side-car enabled them to get from the hotel to 
the best fishing grounds conveniently and quickly. 
Great is the pride of the sportsman who sees 
his son bring down his first pheasant, or bowl 
over his first rabbit. I think it must be so 
equally with the fond father whose daughter gets 
her first fish. One father not long ago related in 
The Field the achievement of his daughter, a 
young lady of nineteen, who hooked a salmon on 
the Don and played it unaided for five hours and 
forty minutes! It was a fish of twenty-six 
pounds. 
A friend of mine in Birmingham sent me an 
interesting account of his young daughter’s first 
trout, a three-quarter-pounder caught on the first 
day she had a rod all her own. “ With regard 
to my daughter catching the three-quarter pound 
trout: I had taught her to fish a few times when 
I had been going for chub from a boat on the 
Avon, but she had not had a rod of her own 
until the day she caught this particular fish, We 
had been fishing on a July afternoon on the 
Warwickshire Blyth, each independently, and at 
4.30 1 called her to come to tea at a cottage. On 
the way there was a fair hole in the stream, and I 
