ANGLING EXTRAORDINARY 



pools lying below the rapids. It is perhaps true 

 that more steelheads are caught on the cane pole 

 and copper spoon than in any other way. Let no 

 effete Easterner sneer at this style, for the betting 

 is ten to one that he himself can not practice it. 

 The art of holding one's footing on the smooth rock 

 or on the uneven lava surfaces is one not picked up 

 in a day. 



The lesser school of steelhead anglers stick to the 

 artificial fly. In fact, they are salmon anglers par 

 excellence, although they are obliged to wade in 

 order to angle ; they can not, as in the case of many 

 Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Quebec, and Nor- 

 way salmon waters, fish from the shore. 



The steelhead acts very much like salmo solar, 

 but being a little more active and not quite so heavy 

 as his greater cousin, he will hang more to white 

 water and less to the pools. At the bottom or at 

 the edge of some long, rough ridge of white water, 

 where the waves run four or five feet high, he 

 will lie behind some protecting rock, much like the 

 salmon. Sometimes he will drop into a pool after 

 the typical salmon fashion. His hang-out is most 

 apt to be flanked by a rushing rapid of flung white 

 water. When hooked he does not stick to his pool 

 as a salmon is very apt to do, but makes at once 

 for the current. What that means in the tax on 



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