50 FISH : THEIR HABITS AND HAUNTS. 



will require unremitting . care and skill for 

 two or three hours before they yield ; and 

 few of any size can -be landed as they ought 

 to be in less than an hour. When the fish 

 bounds repeatedly out of the water the 

 chances are that he will succeed in breaking 

 his hold either by the main force of his fall 

 into the stream, or by tumbling across the 

 line. The latter accident scarcely ever fails 

 to set him free. When the fish takes what 

 is called " the sulks," the chances of killing 

 him, if the bottom is not favorable, are very 

 problematical. 



A salmon will rise again and again at the 

 fly after he has missed it. In this he differs 

 widely from the trout. He has been seen to 

 miss the fly a dozen times in succession, 

 and at last take it greedily. Should he, 

 however, be slightly hooked in any instance 

 and break off, he will come no more, — at 

 any rate not for some time. 



It is important for the angler to be able to 



