Salmon Fishing. 7 i 



salmon ? On this occasion not only did I see 

 the latter jumping out of the water in the 

 strangest possible manner, but some, within a few 

 feet of where I was wading, seemed bent upon 

 knocking me over with a stroke of their tails, 

 so close to me did they come. And yet all alive 

 as the river was with grilse and salmon, not one 

 would condescend to look even at my fly, to say 

 nothing of taking it. Instead of coming up head 

 and tail in a straight direction, the fish in 

 question, I observed, invariably threw themselves 

 sideways out of the water ; and when such was 



the case, C m n told me they were called 



" Plumpers" (in local phraseology, I pre- 

 sumed), and rarely, if ever gave the angler any 

 sport. 



Since witnessing the strange antics of these 

 fish, many years have slipped away, and yet I 

 am as much puzzled as ever, when I see continu- 

 ally the same whims and fancies of the finny race 

 in question, and try to account for them. 



It is a common notion with the fishing 



