WATER POACHERS 



IF trout streams and salmon rivers are ever more 

 interesting than when the March-brown and the 

 Mayfly are on, surely it must be when the fish are 

 heading up stream for the spawning grounds. Then 

 the salmon leave the teeming seas and the trout their 

 rich river reaches for the tributary streams. At this 

 time the fish glide through the deep water with as 

 much eagerness as they rushed down the same river 

 as silvery samlets or tiny trout. Maybe they stay 

 for a short time at some well-remembered pool, but 

 the first frosts remind them that they must seek the 

 upper waters. A brown spate rolling down is a 

 potent reminder, and they know that by its aid the 

 rocks and weirs will be more easily passed. If the 

 accustomed waterways are of solid foam the fish get 

 up easily, but the soft spray gives them little hold. 

 Let us watch them try to surmount the first obstacle ; 

 and here, by the White Water rocks, it is an interesting 

 sight to see the salmon " run." There is a deafening 

 roar from the waterfall, and the almost impalpable 



spray constitutes a constant maze of translucent 



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