UC-NRLF *B B71 TIE * «^C lYflSHMC! H.CHOLMONDELEY PENNELL, AUTHOR OF "THE MODERN PRACTICAL ANGLER &c J- ■ I __ ft LONDON: GEORGE ROUTLEDGE T3 o o a, § •& a * ■*! Irs -8 S 00 . bo >^ ci . X •» o Jg "S ^.^p ft o.B 4" .15 ° ft o ^ bO O ^ 42 O W H O bo $3 ft<43 nj n3 'E ,£ J>^ ft O bo £.5 o ^ 5 sg'g g^> 3 P 1 to "t^ . £^ P U . 43 O U <£ 8 ^ 3^ Q 43 -5 d d +4 . 4^ d bo O a> ft 43 o **- ,cO «J ft dp A o bo •Xpoq 3q; ui pssn { £VS\d p3SSoqtu9 „ 3q; jo isim; a^Suis y O > o d *c3 P. 106 SALMON FISHING. head to butt. As, however, the size of hackles is limited, in very large flies it is impossible to carry out this proportion strictly ; but with a little trouble hackles of an inch and a half long in the fibre can easily be obtained by feather-dyers and tackle- makers, and up to this size anglers using the flies recommended should insist upon the proper pro- portion being maintained. These hackles not only possess an amount of transparent, almost prismatic, colour which no other part of the fly displays, but, as they are worked through the stream, open and close with every movement of the rod or fly, and give the appearance of life to what would other- wise look only like a bar of dead silver or gold or colour. The principal wing-feathers in all these flies, are the black and white neck hackles of the jungle cock, and the next in importance feathers from the golden pheasant known as " toppings." — perhaps the two feathers which experience has proved to be on the whole most killing for Salmon in the greatest variety of combinations. If the expense of golden pheasant toppings in the wings is objected to, the best substitutes are golden orange hackles. These colours have also the advantage not SALMON FISHING. IO7 only of being in themselves strong and glowing, but of harmonizing with the body colours of each of the three flies — a harmony which the hackles complete. As the harmonies of sound depend upon the combination of certain natural " intervals" furnished by the harmonic chord, so in forming harmonies of colour the natural or prismatic arrangement, as displayed by the solar spectrum of the optician, must in every case be taken as the basis. Thus in the gold-fly — the prevailing colour of which is intended to be a rich golden orange — red, orange, and yellow are the three predominant colours — orange (the gold of metal- lurgists) in the prismatic arrangement passing* into red on the one side and yellow on the other. In 44 the Rainbow" the same model is closely followed, the whole of the prismatic colours being combined in the body and shoulder hackle in their proper sequence. In No. 3, which is a silver-bodied fly, no harmony of colour is strictly speaking possible — silver (or white brightened) not being a colour but rather a negation of it. In a more general sense, however, both white and black harmonize with all the other colours. It is seldom — I may say never, except in large waters like the Shannon — that two Salmon-flies, 108 SALMON FISHING. or one Grilse and one Salmon-fly, can be used with advantage. The bob-fly or dropper in lake Trout- fishing is often the most killing fly, because when properly worked it skips along the ripple like a real live insect endeavouring to rise after a partial immersion ; but the Salmon-fly, which is appa- rently not taken for a fly at all, kills best under water. If White-trout, however, are in the river, a White-trout fly, as the dropper, may often be used with advantage. New Knots for Gut Loops and Drop-Flies. I may here mention a method of fastening drop- flies on Salmon casting-lines which I have found very successful. The object sought to be attained is, of course, that the fly should remain for the longest possible time standing clear from — in fact, almost at right angles to — the line, with the least amount of knotting or thickening, and the greatest facility for changing. To secure the first, it is necessary that the casting-line should be stiffened at the point of intersection. This is effected by joining the two halves of the line in a single fisher- man's knot, leaving about half an inch over at each end. The knot having been drawn straight and close, these two ends should be lapped down to SALMON FISHING. IO9 the line with a few turns of light coloured silk, as shown in figure 1 of the accompanying engraving ; and the effect of this arrangement will be found to be that the casting-line at that point is trebly stiffened, with scarcely a perceptible increase of thickness or clumsiness. Over the central knot the loop of the drop-fly should be passed and drawn close in the manner shown in figure 3. For the tying of these loops, and all others used in fishing, I have, I believe, succeeded in hitting upon a new and considerably improved form of knot, — the ordinary loop being both clumsy and crooked (a serious drawback to the perfect set of the fly), and, in thick gut, very difficult to manipulate. My knot (fig. 2, and x in fig. 3) is simply a new application of the principle of the ordinary single fisherman's knot, thus : a half knot is made, about an inch and a half or two inches IIO SALMON FISHING. from the end of the gut, but not drawn quite tight ; the end of the gut is doubled over and passed back again from above through the opening ; and then again, with this end, a second half-knot, embracing the main, link, is made < below the first. Both half-knots are then again separately pulled tight, and drawn together. This produces the smallest possible knot, and one which will never draw and is perfectly straight. The collar should be of the strongest picked Salmon-gut, stained as already directed for Trout-gut y and the strands knotted in a single " fisherman's knot," with a lapping of thin gut inside, or between the knots, instead of the ordinary silk lapping outside. This mode of lapping relieves the knot itself of half its duty, and on any sudden jerk, such as striking, acts as a sort of buffer to receive and distribute the strain. It is, moreover, simpler, much neater, and nearly twice as strong as the common double knot. Tied with the latter a couple of feet of very strong Salmon-gut will break — almost always at the knot — on a steady strain of from 12 to 1 5 lb. ; tied on my method it will break at any other part in preference. The gut-lapping has also the advantage of being transparent, whilst silk is of course opaque. Fac- SALMON FISHING. Ill similes of the new and of the old knot tied with the same strands of gut are annexed. New knot. Ordinary knot. All Salmon-flies should be dressed with gut- loops, not only with the double object of strength and durability, but for the purpose of making the fly swim straight when attached to the casting- line. This last object, however, is not accom- plished with the ordinary mode of knotting on the fly — viz., by forming a half-knot at the ex- tremity of the casting-line, and then " reeving" it in and out through the loop. When thus attached the fly presents a sort of broken-backed appearance, and must of necessity swim head downwards instead of horizontally. The following method will be found entirely to obviate this defect, whilst it is at the same time neater and stronger and equally simple : — Pass the end of the casting-line through the fly- H I I 2 SALMON FISHING. loop from above ; then over the loop ; then up again through it from below ; and finally tie with it a half-knot round the main line, in the form shown in the diagram, fig. I. Then draw the last-made knot tight, and slip it up to the loop, drawing the main line also tight, as shown in fig. 2, which is a facsimile of the knot as tied on a small Grilse-fly. In fig. I the loop is exaggerated in length for the sake of illustration. The gut should always be- well moistened before the knot is tied. The Rod. Salmon-fishers have almost all their peculiar fancies about rods. Some pin their faith to the swishy, spliced, and somewhat top-heavy weapon which takes its name from Castle Connel ; whilst others, going to the opposite extreme, will fish with nothing more pliant than the old-fashioned, untapered, four or five ferrule-jointed rod of the past generation of London makers. The latter would doubtless bring against the swishing rod the charge of top-heaviness, whilst its owner would consider that the extra top weight and "play" of his rod did duty instead of muscular effort. He might probably put his argument thus : — " In SALMON FISHING. I I 3 every cast your stiff rod has to be worked with twice the movement of arm that mine requires :" to which the reply would be, " Yes, but then my rod is so lightened towards the point, that it is no effort to me to work it." For my own part I think that, like the chameleon philosophers, both are wrong and both are right ; in other words, that each rod possesses a valuable principle of its own, but carried to a mischievous excess in the two extreme types I have referred to. In the Salmon- rod power is pre-eminently necessary, and green- hart gives it. Lightness is another essential ele- ment, and the old-fashioned evenly-tapered hickory rod admirably fulfils the condition. Very strong and tall anglers may wield, and very broad waters sometimes demand, a longer rod than 18 feet, but for all ordinary purposes I think from 18 to 19 feet will be found the most convenient length. In order to insure the greatest comfort and efficiency, the rings, &c, of Salmon rods, as of all others, should be stiff instead of moveable as ordinarily arranged. H 2 114 salmon fishing. The Reel and Line. A reel similar in pattern to that recommended for Trout, but capable of holding from 80 to 100 yards of casting-line will be found best. For an 18 or 19 foot rod, such as that described, a reel of four inches in the diameter of the plate gives on the whole the best balance. The ordinary eight-plait dressed silk line, or the spun-cotton line, already elsewhere described, will be found the best, the latter being about one-third of the price of the former. The Gaff. A straight, sharp point is the only real essential in a gaff. All other matters are comparatively unimportant. As the gaff has always to be carried by an attendant, one with a 6 or 7 foot solid handle is most convenient. In gaffing a Salmon there is an art which needs some little practice and presence of mind to acquire. Unskilful gaffers make a sort of dive or snatch at a fish. The proper plan, on the contrary, is cautiously but quickly to lower the gaff until the point nearly, but not quite, touches the fish's opposite side below the shoulder, and then give it a sharp, sudden jerk SALMON FISHING. I I 5 (not stroke) inwards, which drives it home. Snatching, diving, and striking at Salmon with the gaff result in frequent hitchings of the line, and abortive scratches and cuts being inflicted on the fish, which, though impotent for purposes of cap- ture, yet produce sufficient smart to frighten him into a final and despairing rush, which is frequently- fatal, I mean to the basket. So obstinately stupid on this point are often even professional attendants, that I have frequently gaffed my Salmon myself with one hand, holding the rod in the other, rather than entrust either to their tender mercies. Hooks. In the shape, weight, and especially in the strength of the larger sizes of my pattern of hooks, described at page 42, I have had particular regard to the requirements of the -Salmon-fisher, and I believe these hooks will be found to combine these essentials in a greater degree than any of the existing patterns. WORM-FISHING FOR SALMON. The observations elsewhere offered on the dif- ferences of water and season for using the spinning bait for Salmon in different localities, apply I I 6 SALMON FISHING. according to most authorities to a considerable extent to worm-fishing also. For example, Mr. Stoddart lays it down that worm-fishing " can be practised with success only when the river is clean and small," and yet in Ireland I have known seven clean salmon taken before breakfast out of " The Leap" on the river Bush, in April, when the water was all but in actual flood and hopelessly thick for the fly. The mode of fishing as commonly practised is extremely simple : a large single hook, say No. 1 4 or 15, is whipped on to two or three yards of Salmon-gut. A supply of lob-worms having been obtained, and, if feasible, previously scoured, the hook is passed through the middle inch or two of two or three of them, according to their size and the size and state of the water, the last worm being so put on that no part of the hook or barb is left visible. Sufficient large split shot should then be fixed to the line about if feet above the bait, to take it well to the bottom, but yet they should not be so heavy as to prevent the stream carrying the bait freely along with it over the stones. The bait is then worked very much like the worm bait for Trout, except that the angler, SALMON FISHING. 117 having selected a pool or run in which he knows that there are plenty of Salmon, generally remains at the same place, shifting his ground a few paces at a time higher or lower. The usual symptom of a bite is a stoppage of the bait, followed by a very gentle twitching. Sometimes, however, though in my experience rarely, the Salmon takes the bait in a more reckless fashion, resembling -ather the run of a Trout. Having taken the tait, the Salmon will frequently remain nearly or qiite motionless for some little time, and then trove steadily away. This is the moment to stike, and as the bait is invariably actually swal- lpved or pouched, there is little fear of the fish behg missed. Should the fish move away at once after biting, line and time must be given him to pouh the bait. To provide for the contingency of aiy sudden moves or rushes on the part of the fish, md against that of any sudden check on the part )f the angler, it is a wise precaution always to kep a yard or two of spare line loose in the hand between the bottom ring and the reel. This jrecaution will not seldom save the loss of a fisi. The rod used for fly-fishing for Salmon, but with a somewhat stiffer top, and also the reel I I 8 SALMON FISHING. and line, will answer every purpose for this kind of worm-fishing. But there is another method of worm-fishing for Salmon, unpractised, so far as I am aware, and at any rate ' unpreached,' by any angler or angling writer, which, according to my experience, is as superior both in its practice and results to the system above described, as spinning is to gorge baiting. This method consists of applying to Salmor the system of fine fishing already advocated fof Trout, with three trifling differences only in tackt and bait. 1. Instead of a "brandling" or other sm/ll worm, the bait should be a lob-wom y large or small, according as the rivei is high or low, coloured or clear. 2. The hooks and trace should be simila* in every respect to the Trout tackle, but with hooks one or two sizes larger (clly), as the bait is a large or small one ; and instead of a small shot or two to veight the trace, a sinker should be u£d of sufficient weight to carry the bait lightly down to the bottom of tie run or pool. Small paternoster leads SALMON FISHING. I 1 9 (smoked to prevent their glittering) are most convenient for this purpose, and they should be attached to the main trace, about two feet above the hooks, by means of a horsehair loop, which will both admit of a ready change of leads, to suit the varying depths of the different casts, and, where a "foul" occurs, which it frequently does, will, as a last resort, break at a less strain than the main line, and thus save the latter. The lob-worm should be put on quite straight, like a Trout worm, the upper hook near the knot, and the tail hook lower down. The thicker the hooks are in the wire the better. The stroke, a genlle one, should follow immediately on a bite, or more often on a suspicious stoppage being perceived. I have repeatedly caught Salmon with this tackle in bright sun, and in the clearest and finest water, and after all other methods of fishing, in- cluding the ordinary worm practice, had failed ; a slightly clouded water is, however, best. It is of course most important, especially in the former case, that the angler should carefully keep out of 120 SALMON FISHING. sight ; and, if possible, always below the spot which the bait is fishing. This is almost a sine qua non with this mode of fishing — than which I know nothing more truly " sporting" and sports- manlike. The very fine hooks and tackle which must be used, and the nice manipulation of the line and bait required to insure success, entitle it to a front place in the Angler's Arcana. THE END. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS ON "THE AISTGHiER-lSrATUItALIST.' Field. — "An admirable book . . . it is in fact the most complete history of British fresh- water fish of the present day." John Bull. — " A work of national importance. Characterized by a careful and systematic knowledge of the special branches of zoology which come within its scope ; and thoroughly worthy to place its author's name by the side of that Coryphaeus of this class of lite- rature—Gilbert White of Selborne." Press. — " So good a manual has not hitherto appeared ; the lazy angler will dream over it ; the strenuous angler will carefully study it ; and make good use of its concise information and manifold sug- gestions. . . . Instruction and amusement are pleasantly mingled in its pages, and the angler will be unwise who does not contrive to find room in his knapsack for this charming volume." Saturday Review. — "It admirably carries out its selected pro- gramme. It claims for every sportsman that he should be a bit of a naturalist, and does its part to make the angler a complete one, as far as fish are concerned. That its author is both one and the other we have abundant evidence. The lucidus ordo bespeaks the natu- ralist, the practical information a true disciple of the gentle craft." Header. — " An admirable work. It is stored throughout with anecdotes, which Mr. Pennell relates in language that is always terse and graceful. On the subject of fishing he is well known as an authority. . . The Angler Naturalist is a clever book, and a useful book, and a book sui generis. We have no doubt that it will become a standard work of reference. Let us add, what Mr. Pennell has modestly omitted, that it is the most complete history of British fresh- water fish of the present day ; and that the illustrations are equal to the text — which is the greatest compliment we can pay them." Baity' s Sporting Magazine. — "No man can be qualified to send forth such a book as this one, which we have just read with infinite plea- sure and profit, unless his knowledge of natural history and angling be a practical and full one, gained by personal experience, cherished by a true love of the subject, and totally independent of theory and book- wisdom." Lancet. — "Let those who have hitherto been satisfied with being simply killers of fish turn to this very beautiful book, and make themselves masters of its pages. It will be strange, indeed, they do not wish to become something more, and we must even say, better." OPINIONS OF THE PRESS ON "THE BOOK OF THE PIK E." Field. — u Since the days of Nobbes, the father of trollers, no work has issued from the press likely to carry such consternation into the homes and haunts of the tyrant of the waters as the book before us. .... Mr. Pennell has certainly taken in the pike and done for him, and there is nothing left for succeeding writers on pike-fishing to tell their readers. He has exhausted the subject, and has done it so well and so deftly, that one wanders on, and on, through his pleasant pages, wondering where he has gathered all this pike-lore from, and how it is that in a somewhat restricted subject like the history of, and means of capture employed upon one particular fish, he has contrived to beguile one of any sense of tedium. On the practical department of his book we need enlarge but little. Mr. Pennell is so well known to be a senior angler in the art he professes, that it is far better to let him speak for himself and to recommend our readers to cull his directions from the fountain-head, than to attempt to condense them in simply mangled fragments. As for criticising them, there is no need of it." Sporting Gazette. — "That there is an actual necessity for and value attached to such an addition to the fisherman's library, apart from the consideration of the literary and piscatory talents of the author, will readily be conceded by those who are aware that no English work has ever before been devoted exclusively to pike-fishing. We may therefore congratulate ourselves that such an addition has come to us, and from such a source. . . . Part II. exhausts, we may say, completely and satisfactorily, all the various details of each method of pike-fishing.'* Land and Water. — " ' Has this book a sufficient excuse for exis- tence ?' Mr. Pennell asks in his preface. The best of excuses we reply. Since Nobbes, of the dark ages, no substantial treatise on puce-fishing has been given to the world, if we except those of Salter and "Otter" — the one a Cockney, the other a catchpenny pro- duction. The Booh of the Pike, on the contrary, is the work of a scholar and a gentleman, and of a senior angler to boot, and it treats its subject exhaustively." BeIVs Life. — "This is in every sense of the word a clever book, and is, moreover, as useful as it is unpretending. . . . We can with every satisfaction endorse the prophetic suggestion of Mr. Westwood, whose Bibliographical Anglomania is known and admired by all anglers of note, when he says that ' Posterity will agree to designate Mr. Pennell the * Father of Pike-fishers.' A naturalist and a most genial writer, Mr. Pennell is also a student in history, and the charm of his teaching is heightened by its graceful and gentle utterance." EIGHTH EDITION. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, price 5s. ; or, gilt edges, 6s. PUCK ON PEGASUS. By H. CHOLMONDELEY PENNELL. With nearly 100 Illustrations by Sir Noel Paton, Leech, Tenniel, Doyle, Cruikshank, &c. Opinions of the Press on Former Editions. London Review. — Who does Dot know " Puck on Pegasus," which now comes before us in a sixth edition ? Times.— The epigrammatic drollery of Mr. Cholmondeley PennelPs " Puck on Pegasus" is well known to many of our readers. . . . The present is a superb and handsomely printed and illustrated edition of the book. Daily Telegraph. — There is no doubt that Mr. Cholmondeley Pennell's " Puck on Pegasus," which has reached a sixth edition, merits the honour and success of that unquestionable proof of popularity. The book has been reviewed over and over again. Standard. — Splendid verse. . . . The sixth ecfition — on the merits of the book it ought to be the sixtieth — is published in exquisite garb by Mr. Hotten. Those who do not already know the wonderfnl swing of Mr. Cholmondeley Pennell's lines should make their acquaintance at once. Scotsman. — A beautiful and amusing book. . . . Mr. Pennell always shows himself a master of the art of versification. Saturday Review. — The book is clever and amusing, vigorous and healthy. There is plenty of poetry in railways and steam-engines, and now that other mines of inspiration are growing exhausted, we cannot see why a new shaft should not be run in this direction. Morning Post. — The rhythm and rugged swing of the "Night Mail North 1 ' will give our readers a taste of Mr. Pennell's higher qualities. Field. — This is a sixth edition, but it might honestly be a sixteenth .... Mr. Pennell often plays with his power, but there is the right stuff in almost every line he pens. Observer. — The public have affixed the seal of their approbation on the work, arid we have only to say that in doing so they have judged as they usually do, wisely and well. Examiner. — Let Mr. Pennell trust to the original strength that is in him, and he may bestride his Pegasus without fear. CHATTO AND WINDUS, PUBLISHERS, PICCADILLY. Small Svo, cloth extra, price 4s. Qd. MODERN BABYLON; CRESCENT?; AND OTHER POEMS. By H. CHOLMONDELEY PENNELL. Morning Post. — An author who has reached the honour of a sixth edition —as Mr. Cholmondeley Pennell has done in his very clever and amusing book, "Puck on Pegasus" — can venture again before the reading public without any great anxiety as to his reception. His present work, " Modern Babylon," contains some sixteen poems, well calculated to show the versatility of the author's muse .... Mr. Pennell grasps his subject with the vigour of a man of genius, and he invariably works on the right side of the question. He is wholesome, earnest, thoughtful — a worshipper not only of the beautiful but the good. ... In such poems as " Holyhead to Dublin" there is rush and swing in the verse, which make it audible as the pace of a horse or the clank of a steam-whistle. . . . Side by side with this strength we find grace and elegance and airy fancies. What a charming little poem, for instance, full of suggestiveness and sparkle, is the one we quote at length, entitled " Outside" ! . . . . What sweetness of tone and purity of idea live in this little poem ! It recalls the matchless lines "To Helen," written by the most poetic of all American poets, the ill-starred Edgar Allan Poe. It is very exceptional to find a gentleman like Mr. Cholmondeley Pennell capable of charming us with such verse as this, and yet so practically gifted that Bailey's Magazine can say of him, " He is not only well known as a Senior Angler, but as one of the straightest riders and best shots in England." Westminster Gazette. — Mr. Pennell is an accomplished and versatile man. . . . The volume we have under notice shows another and very different view of the mental diagnosis of its author. An elegant gift of rhyme, and no small share of the divine afflatus are evident in every page. The opening poem, " Modern Babylon," is worthy of the philosophy of three- score years of earthly sojourn. " The Two Champions," gives an exquisite poetic setting to a beautiful idea. " Fire," evidently inspired by a recent calamitous event, is a clear and incisive bit of word-painting. . . . There is not, in fact, a single piece in this volume which does not evidence know- ledge of the springs of human nature; deep culture and study, allied to in- variable purity of thought and expression. . . . One feels inclined to say to the seeker of true poetry — poetry without the effeminacy of Tennyson, the "naughtiness" of Swinburne, or the harsh, croaking unmusicality of Browning — Go to the glowing verses, the unstained morality, and the panoramic imagery to be found in the pages of "Modern Babylon." 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