A guard on the Cascapedia, and a good angler, 

 told mo ho had once cast a Black Dose over some 

 salmon for twenty minutes or more without being 

 able to move any of them, but upon changing to 

 another dark fly which he called the " Kennedy," a 

 fine big fellow rushed immediately for it. As it 

 was in swift water where he took the salmon, it is 

 possible that the fish changed its position in the 

 pool while the guard was changing the fly, and the 

 M Kennedy * was the first fly the salmon saw. Had 

 the guard continued with the Black Dose and been 

 most careful about his casts, I believe it would 

 have been just as effective. The angler, after cast- 

 ing a long time without any rises, often becomes 

 careless and does not drop his fly correctly on the 

 pool. He then changes the fly. Again the expec- 

 tation of hooking a fish makes him more keen, so 

 for a few moments he casts better ; it is then that 

 the salmon is hooked. This the angler attributes 

 to the changing of the fly, when it is really owing 

 to better casting. In my own fishing I have no- 

 ticed that if I am casting badly I cannot get any 

 salmon. This is especially true when the river is 

 low. But when you know that you are casting 

 over the same salmon, which is possible to deter- 

 mine only in clear water, and he rises to but re- 

 fuses different sizes of the same fly, I doubt very 

 much if other colors will tempt him. 



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