404 SALMON AND TROUT. 
‘On a fish taking the prawn, you will, if inexperienced, at 
first fancy yourself fast in a rock ; but you will soon learn to 
distinguish in a moment—by a sort of indescribable sensation 
—when your line tightens in a fish. When you first feel him 
do not strike, but give a good ‘pull’ or two. After two or three 
seconds have elapsed many fishermen strike or jerk up the 
point of their rod, but I am against this plan of hooking a 
fish for reasons I have already explained in my notes on fly 
fishing.’ 
Quitting now the subject of prawn or ‘shrimp-bait fishing’ 
for salmon, with thanks to Major’Traherne for his excellent 
hints, and wishing him ‘a light heart and a heavy creel,’ we 
must step into the boat that has been awaiting us for the last 
half-hour, and putting ourselves under ‘the creature Dougal’s’ 
guidance make play for the upper end of the loch—‘ Youth on 
the prow and pleasure at the helm ’—so as to have at least a 
couple of hours before sunset to try our luck at 
SPINNING FOR LAKE TROUT. 
Putting aside the true salmon, Sado salar, which has been 
already alluded to, there are three species of Salmonide taken 
more or less constantly with the spinning bait, namely, the 
common trout, Sa/mo faris, the Great Lake trout, or grey 
trout of the Cumberland lakes, Salmo ferox, and the sea trout, 
or salmon trout, Sa/mo trutta. This sequence represents 
probably the relative importance of the three fish from the 
point of view of the lake spinner. Indeed, as the sea trout is 
most commonly taken when spinning for one or other of the 
first-named fish, and the tackle, &c., used are the same as 
those applicable to spinning for brown trout, further details 
are needless. 
The neighbourhood of broken rocky islands, and round and 
amongst submerged rocks, is generally good holding ground for 
both species, and such a place, with a depth of 6 to 10 or 
