ANGLING EXTRAORDINARY 



a trout. A favorite maneuver on his part seems 

 to be a sullen shaking of the head. You feel a series 

 of short, savage jerks at the line as he tries to get 

 latitude enough for bursting out into the heavy 

 water where he knows that the current against his 

 side will give him added leverage against the rod. 

 He will always fight remote from the angler fifty, 

 sixty, seventy-five feet ; so that in the dim light of 

 evening it often is difficult to see clearly what the fish 

 is doing, even when he jumps. Only out at the end 

 of that tense strand of silk one feels something sav- 

 age, courageous, fearless. Take this feeling, with 

 that inspired by the river, and the angler is not al- 

 ways sure whether he is the pursued or the pursuer. 



Good tactics require that the angler shall lead 

 his fish into quiet water as soon as possible. Some- 

 times that means that he must wade across deeper 

 channels of water between the reef where he has 

 been standing and the shore, distant perhaps fifty 

 or sixty yards. I have seen anglers come in across 

 these deeper gaps, wading chin-deep, rod held above 

 the head, all the time fighting a five-pound fish 

 eighty feet away. There are times when the strain 

 of the fish on the rod will serve to overbalance a 

 wading angler. 



For the table the steelhead is edible, as are all 

 members of the salmon family. He is hard and 



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