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found seven fish together and got six of them be- 

 fore dark. On another occasion I found three 

 fish in about two feet of water and finally got all 

 three, but as a general rule I expect to hook from 

 ten to twenty per cent of the fish I cast over in 

 this way. It is very rare that I cannot raise any 

 of them, and then only when it is very hot and clear 

 in the middle of the day. 



We will now transport ourselves to a salmon river 

 in late July or early August and see just what will 

 happen. The time of day will be 11 A. M., the pool, 

 a long one with a ripply run in at the top and a 

 deep-water centre and a tail-end with the bottom 

 of stones of the size of your hand to two feet in 

 diameter. 



We come to the pool at the top and I stand up in 

 the canoe and let the guide paddle carefully, not 

 using his steel-shod pole which scares the fish. 

 We drift down the side of the current at the top 

 and see no sign of fish. In the centre of the pool 

 are several salmon in deep water along ledges; 

 as the canoe nears the tail, we draw to one side 

 and look carefully in a small depression caused by 

 ice or a log jam. Here are six salmon with their 

 noses pointing up-stream. The water is not over 

 three feet deep at most and getting gradually 



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