WET-FLY FISHING 



salmon sees them in motion he is badly frightened, 

 and it is only when he is all in that the angler can 

 bring him up. I have seen many salmon lost by 

 just this mistake. 



I feel very sure that taking the season through 

 I would lose many less fish on light tackle than on 

 heavy tackle, and I believe I would land them more 

 rapidly as a usual thing. This does not seem quite 

 natural, but I have persuaded a number of fisher- 

 men of the fact. 



There is one trick in handling salmon few fisher- 

 men seem to know. I am going to give a couple 

 of instances where it was the only way to save the 

 fish and I hope others will try it. 



Returning from a trip up Gambo Lake to the 

 Triton Brook one year, we found a large run of 

 salmon coming in from the sea. The pool below 

 the dam of the lake held a large number but most 

 of the fish seemed to be located at the outlet of the 

 lake just where the water passed through an 

 eight-foot sluiceway. Below this was a pile of 

 logs, and if the fish went through the sluice every 

 one was inevitably lost. A couple of fishermen 

 had been trying to get them for two days and had 

 not succeeded in capturing a single one. They 

 told us to go ahead and see what we could do. I 



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