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heathen but gamy Rohu ; ah, the very thought of 

 it ! May good luck always avert calamity when 

 he is fishing, be it on the Clackamas, Indus, or 

 Irrawaddy. 



Despite this unbending of the chinook to Kip- 

 ling on the Clackamas, the sport with the fly on 

 the Pacific slope is so uncertain that few anglers 

 attempt it, and the principal salmon-fishing is in 

 the waters of Santa Cruz, Monterey, and Carmel 

 bays, where the splendid fish is certainly at home 

 and affords sport of an exalted kind. Who landed 

 the first salmon here is unknown to fame ; but the 

 angler who has made the sport the closest study 

 is Mr. J. Parker Whitney of New York, who well 

 deserves the following encomium from some 

 appreciative brother angler, which I find in the 

 Forest and Stream of Sept. 2, 1893: "Salmon 

 fishermen the world over owe a debt of gratitude 

 to Mr. J. Parker Whitney for his extremely inter- 

 esting accounts of sea-fishing for salmon on the 

 Pacific coast. Though that fishing has been 

 known for years to a limited number of anglers, 

 Mr. Whitney, as the first one to exploit the sport 

 in an adequate description for the benefit of 

 the guild, may fairly lay claim to its discovery. 

 Others may have known of it as the Norsemen 



