THE LUCK OF SALMON FISHING 95 
ning for salmon as "a form of fishing requiring 
a very large amount of skill and experience 
which may provide one with sport on those 
many occasions when the fly is useless . . . 
a fine art which requires much practice and 
long experience, far more so than fly-fishing." 
" For every good hand with the spinning- rod," 
he says, " you may find twenty who are excellent 
fly-fishermen," 
I remember a friend of mine in the north, 
whose old keeper had been with the family for 
many years and known him since his boyhood, 
telling me that he knew so well the old man's 
contempt for and abhorrence of minnow-fishing 
that he did not dare to use the minnow when the 
old man was out with him, and never allowed him 
to know that he did use it. This old keeper 
would have applied Chay tor's epithets to minnow- 
fishing on every occasion, but would never have 
agreed with him for a moment that even on rare 
occasions it can be legitimately used. 
Those like the old keeper — and I doubt if in 
these days there are many such — might, to use 
Mr. Hutton's words, " seriously consider whether 
they might not add largely to their sport and also 
to their opportunities of fishmg by learning to 
