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ing is contracted in proportion. Often the river 

 falls before the first run of fish occurs. All of these 

 lower pools are fished from Castle-Connell punts, of 

 the patterns used in Scotland, the angler standing 

 in the bow and the gaffer keeping the craft in favor- 

 able position with his setting pole and drag. When 

 a fish is hung, it is customary to push for the shore 

 at once, and handle and gaff him from the land. 



Glassy Pool is one of the most quiet and beautiful 

 of all the pools. It is perhaps sixty yards in diame- 

 ter. At its very head is a charming little islet, cap- 

 ped with evergreens, which divides a most turbulent 

 and angry rapid which comes surging into the pool, 

 and must be quite a formidable obstacle to the as- 

 cent of the salmon. For this reason the salmon are 

 sometimes found here in large numbers. The out- 

 flow of the pool is more peaceful, but still a respect- 

 able dash of broken water, down which it is exhilar- 

 ating to run a boat One side of the pool is flanked 

 by a wooded islet (twin to the one just above), and 

 the other by a precipitous ledge of rock fringed with 

 evergreens, and an abrupt hill rising above the ledge, 

 and clothed with a primitive forest. At the foot of 



