British sport past and present . fl;. SALMON FISHING four good new run fish, viz., one of 12 lbs., one 10 lbs., and twoof 9 lbs. At eight the water beginning to grow, I reeled upand rushed down to Rannoch to show my early friend anotherfly : but the water having fairly commenced to grow, I put ona fly above two inches long, and the tippet being triple gut, I,by an interposition of Providence, put on a triple casting cautiously descended to my stand I showed it to himat once ; he made small bones of it this time, and rushing uplike a bull-dog, or like one of your lovely Peregrines,
British sport past and present . fl;. SALMON FISHING four good new run fish, viz., one of 12 lbs., one 10 lbs., and twoof 9 lbs. At eight the water beginning to grow, I reeled upand rushed down to Rannoch to show my early friend anotherfly : but the water having fairly commenced to grow, I put ona fly above two inches long, and the tippet being triple gut, I,by an interposition of Providence, put on a triple casting cautiously descended to my stand I showed it to himat once ; he made small bones of it this time, and rushing uplike a bull-dog, or like one of your lovely Peregrines, took thefly greedily. I just let him feel I was at the other end of thegear, and knew instinctively that the good steel was well intosomething firm. At first he seemed not quite to realise thesituation, and after a few sulky and dangerous shakes of thehead took to sailing steadily up and down the pool, once ortwice approaching the rapids below, but turning again by gentlepersuasion. These tactics he continued for nearly an hour, myma
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