CH. IX.] OCCASIONAL FLY-FISHING. 121 
obliged to employ greater force than I should 
otherwise have done, in order to try to turn his 
head away from it. At first I thought I should 
have succeeded, but unfortunately the hold gave, 
and I had the mortification of seeing him execute 
a preliminary flourish of derision, throwing him- 
self out of the water, and exhibiting his full size, 
that of at least a twelve-pounder, as he surged 
off to look for quieter quarters. It is somewhat 
remarkable, that this fish, as my friend and J. 
Cameron both positively declared, was not the 
Salmon which had shewn himself just before, but 
a Salmo ferox. My own sight is not sufficiently 
good to enable me to express a decided opinion, 
but my impression is that they were right, and that 
the fish was a different one, being larger, and 
darker-coloured. Besides the spinning-rod, I al- 
ways had a fly-rod at hand in the boat, with 
which I used to catch a good number of brown 
Trout in the runs at odd times. Just above Loch 
Kingie, for instance, I remember catching in a 
very short time about three dozen, one of them 
being two pounds and a quarter, a very bonnie 
fish. The greater part of these I caught just at 
the head of Loch Kingie, wading in with only a 
shirt on, tucked up pretty high, when, what with 
