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SALMON LURES. 
We all know the man who comes up to our 
Northern rivers filled with a “great idea’’ and 
a large measure of amusement at, our piscatorial 
follie.s. says Arthur Francis Paterson in The 
Scottish Field. His -greatest ideas are in con¬ 
nection with our salmon flies. 
“You know,” said one of them last summer, 
“your flies are all nonsense. In the first instance, 
salmon don’t feed in fresh water.” 
“Question ?” 
_ “You think they feed, then? My dear chap 
it is well known that in an imspawned fish there 
is piactically no room for the digestive system— 
it becomes shriveled and useless.” 
“Other fish spawn and no one to my knowl¬ 
edge has suggested yet that an unspawiied her¬ 
ring is unable to eat.” 
_ “But no one has ever found traces of food 
m the digestive tract, or even the mouth of a 
pinion. If they eat it stands to reason, doesn’t 
it, that the food would be found?’’ 
“Reason is derived from facts. You can’t call 
upon reason till all the facts are known to you. 
The discovery of radium played havoc with 
some fundamental laws of chemistry. As long 
as nature keeps a fact ‘up her sleeve,’ reason¬ 
ing is worse than useless. In reference to this 
subject thep are one or two facts which spoil 
the simplicity of your argument. Let us, for 
instance, suppose a spate in June, and that we 
have betaken ourselves to the Bridge of Feugh, 
and let down a dew-lob beneath the falls. There 
are plenty of unspawned grilse and sea trout in 
evidence and we are singularly unlucky if we do 
not land a few. There are two theorists we 
have to deal with: there is the one, like your- 
self, who affirms that salmon do not feed in 
fresh water, and there is the other who explains 
that, though a salmon takes a lure, it would, if 
left to Itself, immediately spit it out again. Ex¬ 
amination of our prizes answers both the 
theorists. These grilse and sea trout not only 
took a worm, but swallowed it into their in¬ 
most recesses. Now, I ask you, have we any 
reapn for believing that a worm with a hook 
in Its inside is any more attractive than one as 
nature made it? No! I think we are agreed 
there, and that the fish that took the former 
will take the latter. J think that conclusion is 
safe. Anw now I will point out the mystery— 
the only worm you ever find inside your prize 
IS the one you caught it with.” 
My friend remarked that it was very singular. 
“To go a step further down the scale. With 
the first flight of March browns in the spring 
large numbers of finnock and yellow trout will 
be observed feeding in unmistakable fashion. 
An adroit fly-fisher will soon have samples of 
each in his basket. Now, note the difference. 
Although the finnock have been feeding quite as 
yoiaciously as the yellow trout, their condition 
is vastly different. In the case of the former, 
no flies will be found in the mouth or throat, 
and it will be impossible, by compressing the 
belly, to squeeze any into evidence. On the 
other hand the whole mouth and throat of the 
yellow trout will be packed full of ■ flies, and 
3. squeeze round the belly will force more into 
view.” 
“Your observations are certainly interesting,” 
said the Englishman, “but even although salmon 
do feed in fresh water your flies are none the 
less nonsense. By no stretch of imagination can 
it be supposed that your salmon flies represent 
any living thing.” 
It is thought that they may bear some resem¬ 
blance to the creatures on which the fish feeds 
in the salt water, but that is merest supposition 
and advanced as such.” 
“As the flies do not represent flies in reality,” 
said my friend, “it is perfectly ridiculous to give 
them wings. And if you know anything about 
dressing flies, as I do, you will see what an abso¬ 
lute waste of pretty feathers there is, for ex¬ 
amples, in a Gordon. One set of feathers sim¬ 
ply hides the other set. I maintain that, apart 
from size, which is important—all-important, in¬ 
deed—all you require to capture fish‘in any river 
is a stock of plain, self-colored hackle flies.” 
“The proof of the pudding is in the eating 
of it. Up to date I have never met anyone who 
