SECRETS OF THE SALMON 



This can often be done by careful study and I 

 have frequently taken fish in this way when it 

 could not have been done if I had paid no atten- 

 tion to the shadow. The illustration (Figure 25) 

 shows the shadow of the leader .008-inch diameter 

 on the bottom in about five inches of water. In 

 the second picture the water is a little disturbed. 

 When there are many waves they also throw shad- 

 ows on the bottom, and the fish is accustomed to 

 these and pays no attention to the shadow cast 

 by the fly and leader. The two pictures of the 

 fly and leader taken about the same point as the 

 other two, show the shadows on the bottom. 

 They are hard to distinguish from shadows made 

 by the waves. (Figure 26.) 



When an object is part in and part out of the 

 water, as a fisherman wading is, the fish sees the 

 part under the water directly and its reflection 

 against the surface upside-down. The fisherman's 

 legs appear to the fish directly and upside-down 

 and the body of the fisherman above the water 

 appears through the fish's window. 



My fingers passed through the surface show 

 directly and then an upside-down reflection, and 

 you can see the hand outside the window above. 

 (Figure 27.) 



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