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anger. He will even run quite close to the angler, 

 and so break water. No fish shows so varied a 

 manner of acting when hooked on a fly. He will 

 run for a mile, the fisherman following on as fast 

 as his legs will carry him, fearful lest his tackle 

 should part, and then, in the end, finds his salmon 

 stock-still with his nose at the bottom and tail 

 straight up, try^ing hard to rub the hook from 

 his mouth. There he stavs till he is well rested, 

 and the angler makes every efiFort to stir him up 

 and succeeds at last only to find that without a 

 moment's warning he has again started for the 

 surface with a powerful leap in a quarter little 

 expected. Very many salmon break loose in the 

 act of leaping. They know by experience a slack 

 line gives the desired chance to flick the fly away. 

 The landlocked salmon is rightly named a leap- 

 ing salmon, and for his size shames his bigger 

 brothers in his acrobatic performances. How sud- 

 denly he appears and how quickly he is gone ! I 

 have seen him leaping up the falls but never out 

 of the water in play or for food; he just bobs his 

 nose above the "bruae," or foam, to take in the 

 flies; yet, when he is hooked and his freedom cur- 

 tailed he is a veritable demon, tearing along up 

 above and down below with incredible swiftness. 



