Fishing the Pool 105 



the reel sung, and presently far out on the river a 

 fish of good size leaped high in the air, and then 

 started on his course down and across stream, the 

 canoe being paddled after him as quickly as pos- 

 sible until it got opposite and then ahead of him, 

 where it remained until line enough could be 

 reeled in to make it prudent for the angler to go 

 ashore. Just as he landed the fish sought the 

 bottom, ceased running, and began " jigging," that 

 is, giving hard, short jerks against the line. This 

 is said by some to indicate that a fish is lightly 

 hooked ; but be that as it may, this one presently 

 broke his hold, and the angler had the sickening 

 feeling which comes when it is realized that the 

 tie which held the man and the salmon is severed, 

 and that they are parted, probably forever. 



Returning to the spot where the fish was 

 hooked, and just below which he had seen a 

 salmon jump while absent, the angler fished care- 

 fully down past the end of the pool into the flat 

 below without a rise. Then he went back to 

 the first fish that had come up, and a little below 

 him hooked, on a No. 2 Jock Scott, a smaller 

 salmon, which was landed after a play of about 

 ten minutes and weighed nineteen pounds. Re- 

 turning to camp, he found that his friend, a com- 



