A Sportsman 451 



Every stream or rivulet which empties into the lake 

 has a distinctive taste, apart from the others, stamped 

 and impregnated with the quality of the ground and 

 foliage through which it makes way. 



The ice indicates perceptibly to the eye the prom- 

 inent instances in this respect; currents imperceptible 

 to the eye are constantly moving in various direc- 

 tions, and are the directing signboards for the fish. 



Fishing on the California coast with fresh fish 

 bait, I caught some hundreds of salmon by trolling 

 with a light steel rod and 600 feet of line. I observed 

 the following features : That as schools of salmon com- 

 prising many thousands came in from deep water, 

 following up the anchovies, sardines and squid, which 

 came in from spawning, they would at certain periods 

 mostly all disappear, to be followed after a lull by 

 other schools. I observed that the salmon would 

 disappear a few days after a rise of water from either 

 the San Joaquin or the Sacramento river, emptying 

 into the bay of San Francisco, giving abundant salmon 

 for the seining and canning works upon the banks of 

 the latter. By the San Francisco papers the noting 

 of the salmon arrivals would be four or five days after 

 their disappearance from the Monterey waters. 



The Japanese current known as the kuro siwo, the 

 great current stream from the Yellow Sea, corre- 

 sponding with the American Gulf Stream, pursues 

 its way across the Pacific Ocean to the California coast, 

 regulating the climate from California to Alaska as 

 does the American Gulf Stream that of England, 

 France, and Iceland; pursues its way north some 300 

 or 400 miles west of California until it reaches the long 

 extending loop of the Aleutian Islands, which ends 



