An Angling Symposium
Tins book is not - literature but technical discussion as useful as any ever ,published.. Specially valuable arc the papers on what may be called the new salmon fishing— either with dry fly or with a very small ordinary salmon fly fished on the top of the water—a greased line being used to keep it from sinking. Mr. A. H. E. Wood, the great exponent of this art, says that for sahnon he actually prefers bright sunshine and low water—truly a revolutionary saying : and he adds that it pays him to fish this way using small flies even with snow and ice about. The late Mr. Crosfield; however, lays it down that spring salmon fishing needs wholly different tackle and methods from those which will kill in summer. " In cold water the fly cannot be fished too deeply or too slowly." But in summer you must use fine tackle— as fine as for trout ; and that means using a trout rod or something like it ; Mr. Crosfield's choice was a very light 15-ft. cane with which he had caught over 1,000 salmon. (These are the artists who can generalize.) But it seems to be established that in summer salmon will take a fly believing it to be a fly—not a fish—and, what is more, will not be put off taking a dry fly by a drag on it. The writer of this notice knows that by such methods as arc here recommended a couple of anglers trebled the average take on a reach of river in Ireland and did this when all other rods on the river were getting nothing.
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