52 MOOSE-HUNTING, SALMON-FISHING, ETC 



you cast the fly he wants, he'll take it with 

 a rush ; if you don't, you may fish for hours 

 without seeing a sign, while he may be under 

 your fly all the while. It is often remarked 

 that " the salmon is a queer fish ; " and he is. 

 The fly he will take quickly in the early 

 morning he will discard by nine o'clock, and 

 the fisherman, to please his fancy, has to be 

 changing it every hour in the day. In the 

 early season you will find him in the eddy 

 of the rocks ; when the water gets warm, 

 and the lamprey eels are in the stream, seek 

 for him and expect to find him usually at 

 the head of the rocks in the swiftest water. 

 Then he himself can fish in quietness without 

 the eels bothering him, which they do in 

 the eddy. 



The salmon-fisherman should be very 

 patient to be successful. When he is at a 

 pool in which fish generally rest, and he knows 

 it, then he should not soon get discouraged 

 if not successful. Many a time I have 

 fished more than an hour in one spot without 

 a sign, when frequently, just in the act of 

 reeling in my line to move, some peculiar 

 action of the fly would attract his attention, 



