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rivers and estuaries in the spring and summer 

 as they departed, in large shoals ; they discover 

 themselves in the bays by jumping out of the 

 water as they near the river. 



The Salmon haunts the deepest, strongest, 

 and most rapid rivers, and is rarely to be seen 

 in those wherein there is much traffic, or that 

 are sullen or muddy. They prefer the upper 

 parts of rough streams that run into large 

 pools, and the tails of these pools, behind 

 large stones, in the middle and at sides of 

 waterfalls in the eddies, these are the parts to 

 throw for them, but the fisherman on the water 

 will show the angler all the best places. The 

 best months to angle for them are from March 

 till the middle of August, after September they 

 are out of season. They will take the fly best 

 from six or seven o'clock in the morning till 

 nine, and from three in the afternoon till dark, 

 with a good wind blowing up stream. I have 

 hooked them on the very top of a precipice, 

 after surmounting the leap, where they lie to 

 rest in the first deep pool they come to ; they 

 generally run down over the rocks or falls of 

 water to the pool beneath, when they often get 

 killed by the rapid descent. 



