138 The Atlantic Salmon 



change their seats from time to time. In a 

 deepish pool containing big rocks or ledges, 

 one familiar with it can tell pretty nearly just 

 where the fish are to be found, and there are 

 many such wherein one boulder on the bottom 

 is sure to have a salmon behind it if any is 

 in the pool. To such favorite retreats fish at 

 once return if they have risen at a fly and 

 missed it. But in the cases of fish rising in 

 the pools where the bottom is smooth, they 

 may come from quite a distance at the fly, 

 follow it for several yards before showing, and 

 then not return to the places where they were 

 lying when they saw the fly. In a pool of this 

 kind, when fished from a canoe, in dropping 

 down a fish may be disturbed, and go down- 

 stream or to one side. As things grow quiet 

 this fish is likely to work back to his first 

 resting-place, and it is not at all a rare thing to 

 see salmon return to positions quite near the 

 canoe after it has been motionless for some 

 time. These fish may not have been cast over 

 at all, or if so when they were alarmed and 

 moving about, and I think it is from such that 

 the greatest number of those come which follow 

 and rise at the fly as it is being reeled in when 



