396 Big Game Fishes 



prolific fishing ground, better known and more 

 often fished than Carmel. The salmon in its 

 habits presents many remarkable features living 

 in the ocean in its adult stage ; taking to rivers 

 to spawn; impelled by a marvellous instinct to 

 seek the high waters of streams ; leaping high 

 falls ; swimming up cascades which would be 

 considered impossible had not the leap been seen, 

 photographed, and measured ; overcoming all ob- 

 stacles, to reach at last a spot hundreds of miles 

 from the winter home, to deposit their eggs only 

 to die. The movement of these fishes, their re- 

 markable ascent of streams, in fact, the complete 

 cycle of their lives, with their many conditions, 

 constitute one of the most fascinating pages in 

 the history of game fishes of fresh or saline 

 water. 



