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long, and sometimes extremely difficult. Frequently 

 there will be a rocky precipice at the angles back, and 

 only a narrow ledge for him to stand on. If, under such 

 disadvantages, he shall find salmon breaking at the fur- 

 ther extremity of the pool, which cannot be reached from 

 the other side, he is apt, unless he has a long, powerful 

 rod, to smash many of his hooks, miss many of his fish 

 in consequence, and utter many thoughtless and incom- 

 plete observations. Trout can usually be approached, 

 because the streams in which they lie are navigable by 

 boat, or fordable by man ; but with salmon this is differ- 

 ent, and the fly must be sent where they are, whether at 

 the foot of a -fall or the head of a rapid, either of which 

 would soon use up a man, or his frail boat, if exposed to 

 its fury. 



A salmon rod of twenty leet is in some waters prefer- 

 able to one even of eighteen. Weight is not so objec- 

 tionable in salmon as in trout fishing, for the reason that 

 in the former both hands and arms are used, and there 

 is not such wear and. tear of the wrist. A dozen casts will 

 usually determine whether salmon are in the humor for 

 rising in any pool, and then it is as well to wait for a few 

 moments till their humor changes, as to go on urging the 

 fly on their notice. This gives a rest to the fisherman ; 

 and as his ground for fishing is always limited, he is not 

 overworked by the handling of his rod. Killing his fish 

 is what tires his muscles. With trout this is different, and 

 the trout fisherman has no rest either while wading a stream 

 for miles at any pool in which he may rise a fish, or 

 while moving from spot to spot in a boat about a pond, 

 where he can only fill his creel by persistent effort. 



In our country a salmon stream is ordinarily a mighty 

 river, dangerous, and at places impassable to the frail 

 canoe, which alone can navigate it. It cannot be waded, 



