112 The Atlantic Salmon 



to their seats without the angler being conscious 

 that he has attracted them. Probably fish doing 

 so will not rise again without being rested, which 

 of course cannot be done in default of informa- 

 tion the angler is not likely to have. 



Once I saw below me, from the high Metapedia 

 Railway bridge, seven salmon lying almost mo- 

 tionless in the swift clear water. A friend was 

 fishing above in the pool, and I told him to come 

 and cast over them that I mio^ht observe the re- 

 suit. None of them stirred the first time the fly 

 passed, but one started for it on the second or 

 third cast, and turned when within a foot of the 

 surface. Waiting a few moments, my friend be- 

 gan again, with no effect on the fish. The fly was 

 changed, and as soon as it was seen another fish 

 darted at it when it was at least five yards one 

 side of him, turning away just about as the other 

 did without breaking water. A rest was given 

 this fish, but he would not come again ; then the 

 fly was changed, when a third salmon came half- 

 way to the top, and that was the end of it. 



I once fished the same place from the upper 

 end of one of the high piers on the up-stream 

 side of the bridge. There I saw one fish start 

 from the bottom as my fly passed over him, and 



