With fly-rod and camera . f f f^l c^^ p. J 2IO iVitJi Fly-Rod and Camera. The bait? exclaimed Frere. Yes, I replied, I have heard of several instancesof their taking the phantom minnow on this side of theocean, and it is common practice to troll for them inScotland with that lure. Yes, said Frere, W. H. Black in his great novelWhite Heather, gives a number of exciting descriptionsof such fishing. I remember, I replied, and you will find in SirFrancis Franciss book on fishino- and in other Englishworks, frequent mention of trolling for the salmon. Ihave heard of an instance of one taking the sp

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With fly-rod and camera . f f f^l c^^ p. J 2IO iVitJi Fly-Rod and Camera. The bait? exclaimed Frere. Yes, I replied, I have heard of several instancesof their taking the phantom minnow on this side of theocean, and it is common practice to troll for them inScotland with that lure. Yes, said Frere, W. H. Black in his great novelWhite Heather, gives a number of exciting descriptionsof such fishing. I remember, I replied, and you will find in SirFrancis Franciss book on fishino- and in other Englishworks, frequent mention of trolling for the salmon. Ihave heard of an instance of one taking the spoon. Impossible! exclaimed Frere. Not so, I replied; one of my friends, whose ver-acity I can absolutely rely on, tells me that while fishingin the Margaree River, in Cape Breton, he tried day afterday to rise one of the salmon which were lying in a pool,but they paid no attention whatever to the fly. Finally,as an experiment, he cast a trolling spoon among them,and it was seized in an instant. Strange! exclaimed Frere. Yes, I replied,

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