SALMON FISHING IN ENGLAND 



a good salmon, but the strain was getting exhaustiag. I was simply 

 obliged to let the fish take out line, or he would have puUed me over, and 

 some seventy or eighty yards below the fly came away. As I was winding 

 in I felt my foot slip as though some gravel had moved from under it, and. 

 to my great reUef I could move it, and so get a firm footing, and gradually 

 push backwards until I could wade out.' 



Among ladies who distingmsli themselves on England's 

 salmon rlTers are the Duchess of Eoxbnrghe, whose record for 

 the year 1912 was thirty-five fish in the short autumn season. 

 Thirteen salmon were Mlled in two days, the largest being a thirty- 

 two pounder, and the average eighteen and one-third pounds. 

 Lady Nina Balfour killed a thirty-two pound salmon, and, accord- 

 ing to the Gazette, ' seldom had a blank on any of the thirty- 

 nine autumn angling days in Mentoun, wMle her guest. Lady 

 Bernard Gordon-Lennox, who in 1911 vanquished a forty 

 pounder in the Spey, had with the single hooks used on that fast- 

 flowing river eighteen salmon in five November days.' 



17 



