CHAPTER XII 



THE SALMON OF MONTEREY 



NEARLY all tlie old explorers who sailed 

 north from Mexico speak of the salmon 

 and its vast schools in and about the bay of 

 Monterey. The Californians have fished them 

 for years, yet few eastern anglers understand 

 that there is famous sport to be had in the big 

 bay with the fish supposed to be the king of 

 the fresh-water game. But the salmon of the 

 Pacific coast is very different from the long 

 silvery fellow taken in Newfoundland, the 

 streams of the St. Lawrence, and Great Britain. 

 He is of several kinds and of such strange and 

 unaccountable habit that one takes a second look 

 at Dr. Jordan when he tells the story, and won- 

 ders whether this is a fish story or a story of 

 a fish, between which there is supposed by wags 

 to be a difference. 



Thus Dr. Jordan tells us that in going up- 

 stream, a salmon of a certain kind will turn up 

 a river that leads to a lake in which they spawn, 

 while its companion keeps on to the next river 

 which does not begin in a lake. How these fishes 



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