100 SALMON AND TROUT. 
first-rate sport, more than once being literally unable to carry 
home our spoils. I revisited the spot some years later, but 
whether I had incautiously betrayed the whereabouts of our 
‘happy hunting grounds,’ and they had been invaded by 
tourists, or whether the trout thought they had done enough 
for me on my first visit, I cannot say, but the fishing was indif- 
ferent, not to say decidedly poor. 
FIG. 4. FIG. z. 
INCORRECT FORM OF GAFF. CORRECT FORM OF GAFF, 
But where am I wandering to? I started at gaffing salmon, 
and I find myself now describing the catching and eating of 
half a dozen troutlings, whose united ounces would not have 
outweighed a Devonshire peel. . . . Let me for the sake of 
consistency finish where I began, and end this part of my notes 
on Tackle with a few practical hints on the subject of Gaffs and 
How to Gaff a Fish. To the novice, at any rate, they may 
not be altogether useless. And first as to Gaffs : 
