| Show astonishing A SALMON now ho an impatient ria Pl hermn hermon lost III key keys it Is a good maxim to have patience with a weeded fish indeed thia this virtue often standa stands the angler in good stead says the blackwood Black a magazine I 1 once knew a friend of mine put to serious inconvenience for want of it lie ile had hooked a heavy salmon and thia this fish lay down and sulked AS salmon will do once in halt a dozen seasons though not nearly so often if properly handled as some people sup coee my friend trien das was a good fleher fisher and allowed his fish to take no liberties nevertheless this salmon lay down in a deep black pool every known expedient was tried to stir him stones were thrown in inthe the only result w was as that the flah fish took leisurely turns and returned to his stronghold the angler got below him above him alongside of or him and pulled on him to the limit of the strength of his tackle all to no purpose A fine afternoon was lehing away and fish in the river were on the job what was to be done A bright thought occurred to the sportsman lie ile had a bunch of keys in his pocket the keys of all hia his moat most sacred repositories they were on a ring that opened cpr npr ned like a hinge fitting thia this around the butt of his rod without having the patience to remove the keys he ran it down over the point olufa and the whole bunch went rattling down the line and lodged on the salmons nose it had a splendid effect away went the fish like a dog with a n tin kettle at its tall twenty thirty yards of line whizzed from the reel and then there came dis disarmer dl arler th point of the rod flew up the fish was gone back came the flies files but back did not riot come the keya keys thirty would have to remove the keya keys before using the ring fish and am ring might indeed have been lost but the keya keys would have been site |
