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creeks alive with huge rainbow trout, and most 

 all of them are large enough to allow the finest 

 canoeing. Most all the ducks, as well as the sand- 

 hill crane, Wilson's snipe, and many other snipe, 

 breed in the marsh-grass and reeds of this section 

 and, when getting ready for the southern move- 

 ment, add rare variety to the entertainment of 

 him who has been wise enough to try the grand 

 fishing at Pelican Bay or Williamson's River. 

 Around the points and over the points the young 

 birds try their wings morning and evening, while 

 at all times of day great numbers may be stirred 

 up by paddling up many of the sloughs that lead in 

 all directions. Out of the long grass, too, where 

 it is partly under water you may raise them in a 

 way that will remind you of the finest grouse- 

 shooting of the prairie. Upper Klamath Lake is 

 also a great breeding-ground that will repay a 

 visit in many other ways as well as in the quan- 

 tity of ducks one will see. Early in the fall they 

 stream out of there, down Williamson's River, in 

 a way that may remind you of old days some- 

 where else when a good shoot on flying ducks 

 was almost a certainty. Oregon is full of such 

 breeding-grounds, and one of the finest features 

 of hunting water-fowl on this coast is that one 

 does not have to go into the far North beyond all 

 else that is attractive to see the gathering of the 

 clans for the winter raid on the sunny slopes of 



