26 FISHING WITH THE FLY. 



soon reached ; but it does not prove one of safety, for 

 although there are immense flats covered only at half to 

 whole tide, where the salmon could, and the porpoises 

 could not go, the former avoid them, and, clinging to the 

 deep water, seek vainly the protection of our ship and 

 boats, which do not deter the porpoises in the slight- 

 est degree. For two or three days, our eyes, and at night, 

 our ears, tell us that the warfare, or rather massacre, is 

 unceasing ; then there comes an interval of several days, 

 during which there are no salmon nor porpoises. 



I had formed an idea, a wrong one, that the presence 

 of salmon would be made manifest by the leaping of the 

 fish ; on the contrary, were we to judge by this sign 

 alone, but very few had visited us. 



The first school had hardly gotten fairly into the 

 harbor, before I, with others, was in pursuit. 



The cannery boats, and Indians, with their seines, 

 and I with a trolling line and fly-rod. 



A single fish apparently, was at intervals of perhaps a 

 minute, leaping near a point. Indian Dick, one of my 

 staff, excitedly pointed that way, and urged me to go. 

 "There ! there ! sawm.o sugataheen " (plenty). I was in- 

 clined to look elsewhere, or wait for a larger school ; but 

 Dick remonstrated, " Man see one fish jump, sir, may 

 he got thousand don't jump, he under." And Dick 

 was right ; but a very small percentage leap from the 

 water, of which I became more fully convinced when I 

 went with Tom McCauley, head fisherman of the can- 

 nery, on seining trips, or rather on a seining trip, for 



