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which they have to encounter, and it is assumable that 

 salmon will naturally avoid meddling with moving objects 

 which do not conform to certain laws of progression through 

 the element in which they travel. 



Salmon may be roused from their inactivity at times by 

 disturbing the pools in which they lie. Flies and lures can 

 be altered to colours and varieties which may not recall to 

 the salmon previous unpleasant experiences, and a variety 

 of different casts may be made, which may cause the lures 

 presented by the fisherman to the salmon to assume a more 

 lifelike appearance and progress through the water. It 

 cannot, therefore, be too strongly urged upon him who 

 would be successful that a constant change in the methods of 

 fishing any pool may be advisable, and a frequent change of 

 flies desirable when the salmon are not taking well. While 

 dealing with this aspect of salmon fishing it is by no means 

 a bad plan for the fisherman to fish up and across stream 

 if no success can be obtained by the ordinary method, in 

 which case the line must be drawn through the water by 

 reeling in, lifting the rod, or moving the point down-stream. 

 I would go still further, and advise the fisherman to make 

 occasional casts as with a dry fly. I have hooked salmon 

 on the Test with a May-fly, and my experience is by no 

 means uncommon. Salmon frequently take the March 

 Brown when fished wet, and I believe they would do so 

 were a fly similar in make and size to a May-fly fished on a 

 fine single gut cast : the colours of the dressing of such 

 flies might vary. 



STONING A POOL 



Salmon, like all other fish, mistrust a moving object 

 outside the water, but seem to exhibit a curiosity when 

 smaller objects, such as spinning-bait, stones, moving 

 leaves, flies, etc., enter their pool. Stoning a pool frequently 



