. Pleasures of angling with rod and reel for trout and salmon . his great pool, you must venture over these slippery, cob-bling stones. Believe me, sir, there you were nimble or elseyou were down ! But now you are got over, look to yourself;for on my word, if a fish rise here, he is like to be such a oneas will endanger your tackle. How now ! Viator—I think you have such command here over thefishes, that you can raise them by your hand as they say con-jurors can do spirits and afterward make them do what youbid them ; for heres a trout has taken my fly ! I had ratherhave lost a crown. What luc
. Pleasures of angling with rod and reel for trout and salmon . his great pool, you must venture over these slippery, cob-bling stones. Believe me, sir, there you were nimble or elseyou were down ! But now you are got over, look to yourself;for on my word, if a fish rise here, he is like to be such a oneas will endanger your tackle. How now ! Viator—I think you have such command here over thefishes, that you can raise them by your hand as they say con-jurors can do spirits and afterward make them do what youbid them ; for heres a trout has taken my fly ! I had ratherhave lost a crown. What lucks this ! He was a lovely fish,and turned up a side like a salmon !—[Charles Cotton, fljJHE excitement of angling increaseswith the risks incurred. There isbut very little pleasure in takinga three-pound trout upon a two-pound rod, with a TSTo. 9 bait hookand a line strong enough for ashark. Such angling requiresneither art nor skill. But a three-pound trout on a tiny fly-hookattached to a gossamer leader andline, the whole depending from an eight-ounce32. 250 PLEASURES OF ANGLING. rod, and the trout struggling and leaping amidrapids dashing and foaming among jagged rocks —that is an experience which lifts the angler intothe seventh heaven, and gives him such exhila-rating excitement that it remains to him a pleas-ant memory and a joy forever. This is thesort of sport I always have at Setting Pole rapids,and never in larger or more perfect measure thanduring this present visit. Here are a few illustra-tions of the past and present: A few years ago, before the dam was built, toreach the best points for casting it was necessary tostand upon some one of the numerous bowlderswhich lifted themselves above the water at thehead of the rapids. When the water was well up,these standpoints were only reached over extempo-rized bridges composed of a single sapling extend-ing from rock to rock, and often crossed at thehazard of a chilling plunge in the foaming had reached the
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