FOREST, LAKE, AND RIVER 



in the waters of the broader river. The influence 

 of the sea now tempts them by its offer of allur- 

 ing and novel foods, and, yielding to its influence, 

 they enter upon a life of more exciting and 

 hazardous adventure. 



The ocean has now absorbed them ; but what 

 they do, where they go, and what lives they lead 

 there, no man has found out. Despite different 

 theories, no adequate solution of the secret has 

 been offered. When the warming breath of 

 spring conquers the ice zone, then are these bold 

 travellers seen again in broad rivers and purling 

 brooks. 



Perchance, it may be the loving memory of 

 earlier days that entices them, for to the rivers, 

 streams, and brooklets of their infancy, do they 

 return. Before them, with them, or soon after 

 them, come the vast armies of herring, seeking 

 seclusion for their spawning. 



Now by sportsmen is the capture of the salter 

 attempted. Protected by high wading boots, he 

 approaches close to the edge of the channel in a 

 river, or wades a stream, and with live bait or 

 small pieces of fresh herring, casts into the deeper 

 water, allowing his line to gently pay out by 

 force of the current, meantime giving gentle 

 motion to the line. The sophisticated angler 



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