position. With practice you will know how much 

 force to give to the strike, but avoid lifting the 

 arms, which is neither artistic nor correct 



Some time ago I had rather an odd experience 

 when striking a salmon. A small wager was made 

 with a friend in camp that I would return in the 

 evening with a forty-pound salmon. My drawing 

 at the club had all been fished, with the exception 

 of two drops, in the Tim Pool at the foot of Big 

 Curley Rapids. Having made a few caste with a 

 No. 6 double Tim fly, I saw a small whirl appear 

 at the end of my leader. Thinking it had been 

 made by a salmon of not more than twenty-five 

 pounds, and not wishing to lose any time as we 

 were looking for forty-pounders, I tried to pull my 

 fly away. Before I could do so, the salmon seized 

 it and immediately settled in the bottom of the 

 pool. We were all disappointed, because my 

 canoemen were as anxious as myself that I should 

 win the small wager. Drifting below the fish, I 

 gave the butt strongly, and although every effort 

 was made to move whatever was lying at the bot- 

 tom of that deep pool, our attempts were in vain. 

 However, I kept on struggling, and finally was 

 n-wjinlr.l l.y MM-HILT tin- liin- U-pn t movi* up- 

 stream slowly at first, but then swifter and 

 swifter, until at last the rapids are reached, when 

 suddenly out jumps a magnificent fish, and, with a 

 rush which seemed as though everything would be 



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