. Days stolen for sport. Fishing. DAYS STOLEN FOR SPORT 149 of thought. How long I kept up the encouragement I cannot say, but it answered, and I said aloud, *By Jumbo, I have it!' A spectator's smile made me take my fingers from my head and hurry off, but with the Spoon and Phantom as good as made, and since then many a grand fish has fallen a victim to it. It was a Glen Lyon gillie that prompted me to make quite a new departure in my search for the perfect minnow; he had persuaded himself that the salmon's desire to get at the head of what they seized was an indication that if the bait spun
. Days stolen for sport. Fishing. DAYS STOLEN FOR SPORT 149 of thought. How long I kept up the encouragement I cannot say, but it answered, and I said aloud, *By Jumbo, I have it!' A spectator's smile made me take my fingers from my head and hurry off, but with the Spoon and Phantom as good as made, and since then many a grand fish has fallen a victim to it. It was a Glen Lyon gillie that prompted me to make quite a new departure in my search for the perfect minnow; he had persuaded himself that the salmon's desire to get at the head of what they seized was an indication that if the bait spun backwards it would be irresistible to a coming fish, and, as the logic. THE NATORAL-SPIN. seemed good, I spent odd hours enough, before the next season came, to build a hut, in producing a bait which he thought, at first sight, perfect. When the time came to try it I had fruitlessly spun a Phantom and a Spiral in Long Ladder Pool, where there were several fish to be seen straight down from the high rocks above; indeed, M'Leish, my giUie, called to me, 'They're na winking an e'e at ither of them. Try your forward-backward over them, sir.' I put one on and had three casts with it when Mac, throwing up his arms, bellowed out: *Och ! bide a wee; haud it or there'll na be a fush in arl the Glen the mom's morn.' I must not forget that it was to this clever, ever- smiling, never-discouraged gillie that I owe the notion of a bait which should spin in almost gliding fashion through the water, without the aid of flanges, and it was he who christened it the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Geen, Philip. London ; Glasgow : Collins' Clear-type Press
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