CHAPTER VII 



Salmon Fishing 



SALMON fishing is the greatest of all the sports, 

 that can be had in fresh water. I say "fresh" 

 water, for I have had no experience of Tarpon 

 fishing, and though the written accounts of it 

 convince me that salmon fishing is a finer sport, 

 I am content to leave any comparison between 

 the two sports to those who know both. I 

 am not sure that we all feel for salmon fishing 

 that intimate affection which we do for some 

 other forms of angling, but the greatness of 

 it as a sport is indisputable, and we admit 

 its supremacy. The attraction of it is found 

 in the largeness of the fish, the size of the 

 rivers, the strength of the stream, and the tre- 

 mendous uncertainty. 



