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entirely new positions. While playing my fish 

 on the line I watched them and saw one of the fish 

 I had noticed in the deep water swim slowly down 

 out of the pool and swing into line like a cavalry- 

 man taking his position in the ranks. It often 

 happens while fishing the pool that more fish come 

 into view from the deep water. One never knows 

 what a salmon will do next. This one just ran 

 out of the pool and down the rapids so that I 

 had to call for the canoe, as he already had out 

 over 400 feet of my 600 feet of line. I got in and 

 reeled up as the canoe rapidly overtook him. We 

 soon passed him and the strain down-stream caused 

 him to stop and turn up. The current soon tired 

 him out and we brought him to gaff in a little eddy 

 at the side. 



The fishing of this pool is characteristic of dry- 

 fly fishing in July or August in low water. I 

 could give various illustrations of endless incidents, 

 but one experience I had this summer is so much 

 more marked than any others that I shall take 

 time to give it in full, as it shows the superiority 

 of the dry fly over the wet fly in low clear water, 

 better than any other story I could give. I have 

 many witnesses to the facts as stated. The inci- 

 dents occurred on the llth, 12th, and 13th of 



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