THE SALMON FISHEK. 59 



find salmon to be as capricious as trout, bass, and 

 some other kinds of fish. The truth is, if salmon are 

 in a taking mood, they are not particular as to the 

 kind of fly offered. Favorite flies are more apt to be 

 the .favorites of the anglers themselves than of the 

 fish they are in quest of. The old angler just 

 referred to observes farther (I always prefer to 

 quote opinions of others when they corroborate my 

 own): 



" As a rule, the moment the river begins to come 

 out, fish rise very freely and continue for a quarter 

 of an hour to an hour, and then go off altogether. 

 Seldom have I seen them rise for a whole hour. In 

 some rivers fish will rise until the water is so dirty- 

 that they cannot see the fly. The moment the fish 

 begin to stop running and take up their resting 

 places, and the river is clear enough for them to see 

 the fly, I consider the best time to fish. Many of 

 the fish have never seen a fly, so that they rise muck 

 more readily the first time they have been fished 

 over. When the river is colored, the shallowest 

 part where fish lie should be fished, the fish of course 

 having a better chance to see the fly than ^where it ia 



