SECRETS OF THE SALMON 



o'clock it clouded over and looked like a storm. 

 I was fishing the upper end of the pool and my 

 friend, George Dart, was fishing the centre. He 

 called me to come down to him. When I got 

 there he pointed out in the pool to the fish which 

 were gathering in a large circle about fifty feet in 

 diameter. As they would not rise we stood and 

 watched them. They began to move around the 

 circle and seemed to get excited. As the first 

 drops of rain fell they began to break water like 

 porpoises, all in a ring swimming around quite 

 fast, one after the other. The whole circle seemed 

 full of leaping fish. This lasted for about an hour. 

 When the heavy downpour started they stopped 

 rising and we made our way to the camp as we 

 could not catch any. Next morning there were 

 scarcely any fish in the pool. The natives called 

 this "a salmon circus," and they say it happens 

 every once in a while when fish have been penned 

 up for a long time by low water and are about to 

 move up-stream on a rise of water. I myself have 

 witnessed this performance twice, but I have 

 never met another angler who has seen it. 



One day at the Eight Mile Pool on the Upper 

 Restigouche the water was very clear and we could 

 see everything in the part of the pool we were 



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