14 THE SALMON FISHER. 



salmon on the Pacific, and some one of these is to 

 be found in the rivers, in greater or less quantity, 

 .nearly the whole year round, so that proper condi- 

 tions for fly-fishing are afforded if the angler hap- 

 pens to strike them. Fourteen Salmon have been 

 taken from a Clackamas pool in one day by a single 

 xod, where the water was shoal at both sides, and 

 abruptly deepening to a depth of six or seven feet, 

 -with a current of about ten miles an hour at its 

 Ihead. The favorite fly is of a reddish cast, though 

 black-hackle, coachman, professor, red ibis, and a 

 ^vine body with brown speckled wings were all kill- 

 ing flies. June, July, and August were found to be 

 ~the best months for fly-fishing. 



Taxonomically, Salmo Quinnat (0. chouicha, now,) 

 is described by Jordan & Gilbert as follows : 



Color dusky above ; often tinged with olivaceons or bhieish ; sides and 

 Tbelow silvery ; head dark slaty, usually darker than the body and little 

 spotted ; back dorsal fin and tail usually profusely covered with round 

 black spots ; these are sometimes few but very rarely altogether wanting ; 

 sides of head and caudal fin with a peculiar metallic tin-colored lustre ; 

 male, about the spawning season (October), blackish, more or less tinged 

 or blotched with dull red. Head conic, rather pointed in the females 

 and spring males. Maxillary rather slender, the small eye behind its mid- 

 dle. Teeth small, larger on sides of lower jaw than in front; vomerine 

 Tteeth very few and weak, disappearing in the males. In the males, in late 



