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salmon are not exempt from the natural laws which 

 affect all living creatures. They require rest, and for 

 this reason alone it is little wonder that they may at 

 times neglect the instincts of hunger or destruction, 

 whichever they may be, though perfectly conscious 

 of the presence of the moving life around them. 



In the second place, it can hardly be supposed that 

 they are lacking in the wisdom which teaches the 

 majority of created beings to avoid objects which 

 have occasioned them pain, and which threaten 

 danger. 



In the third place, those inhabitants of our rivers 

 and seas comprised in the families which are attacked 

 by salmon, although progressing in a variety of 

 different ways, are yet affected by the natural pheno- 

 mena of the currents, etc., which they have to en- 

 counter, and it is assumable that salmon will naturally 

 avoid meddling with moving objects which do not 

 conform to certain laws of progression through the 

 element in which they travel. 



Salmon may be roused from their inactivity at 

 times by disturbing the pools in which they lie. Flies 

 and lures can be altered to colours and varieties which 

 may not recall to the salmon previous unpleasant 

 experiences, and a variety of different casts may be 

 made, which may cause the lures presented by the 

 fisherman to the salmon to assume a more lifelike 

 appearance and progress through the water. It cannot, 

 therefore, be too strongly urged upon him who would 

 be successful that a constant change in the methods of 



