ANGLING 



took alarm at the passage of our canoes, despite all 

 our precautions, and shot by us to another resting 

 place. We did not fish any of the pools so far 

 described, having resolved that the novice should 

 enjoy his first salmon fishing in the best pool of 

 the river, where the fish were not only most abun- 

 dant at the time, but where the large extent of 

 beach offered special advantages for fighting and 

 killing them when hooked. Here the pool is of 

 large extent, or rather, there are two adjoining 

 pools. The upper one consists of the tail of a long 

 rapid, where the water, though oily and strong in 

 current, gradually deepens to the level of the bed 

 of a narrow gully, forty feet deep, walled in by 

 perpendicular rocks, less than thirty feet apart, and 

 protruding slightly above the surface of the water. 

 The gully itself, a hundred feet or so in length, 

 forms part of the pool, and immediately below it, 

 where the river widens out to nearly two hundred 

 feet in extent, is the lower pool, extending to the 

 head of the rapids some distance away. 



The novice is a past master in the art of trouting, 

 and has nothing to learn from anybody in the 

 matter of casting a fly {ox fontinalis. Yet he mod- 

 estly declines to be the first to cast over the hundred 

 and fifty salmon that are plainly to be seen resting 

 in the lower pool, fearful that he may alarm them 



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