SALMON AND SEA TROUT HAUNTS AND HABITS. 



In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is cairn and pleas- 

 ant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and 

 see her riches, and partake of her rejoicing with Heaven and earth. 

 Milton. 



Salmon are a dainty fish and never resort to streams 

 which, in their normal condition, are turpid or impure. 

 Like trout, they must have clear, cold water, where there 

 are rocks and riffs and pebbly bottoms, and pools scooped 

 out of the river bed and flanked by rapid Jy flowing currents. 

 I never took a salmon in absolutely still water, and very 

 seldom on shallow rapids. The former is not natural to 

 them, and when in the latter they are pursuing their upward 

 journey and are not easily diverted. They rest in pools, and 

 there is where the angler looks for them and expects to find 

 them, and when found and they are in the rising mood, no 

 sport has ever yet been revealed to human consciousness 

 which is more kingly. 



The best trout streams are simply miniature salmon rivers. 

 But irout are unlike salmon in their habits in this : In the 

 eaily season trout are often found on riffs where the water 

 is both shallow and rapid, but later on, from the middle of 

 July to the close of August, no experienced angler would 

 expect to find them 'here in any inviting numbers. In these 

 hot months, when the water has become tepid, they resort to 



