cold east \viml. which came sweeping up the valley 

 and made it most disagreeable to be on the river. 

 I said to my men : " Perhaps this sudden whim < >t 

 the wind may cause a change of mind in that big 

 fish we saw this morning in front of the camp. 

 He may now be willing to rise." 



We poled up to the pool with the utmost care, 

 and placing the canoe about sixty feet above the 

 spot where the salmon was lying, I put on a No. 4 

 double Dusty Miller. My hands were cold, and I 

 told James to make the first cast, never dreaming 

 the salmon would be so near. He made a cast. 

 Instantly a very large fish jumped nearly out of 

 the water, and, seizing the fly, dashed up the 

 stream, taking out thirty yards of the line before I 

 could get the rod. In a second he started up- 

 stream again with a run of forty yards. By this 

 time we were following as fast as possible, but 

 found it most difficult, as we had to go up a rapid 

 before reaching the pool in which the salmon 

 stopped. While we were moving along I was able 

 to take in some line; when all but about forty 

 yards was on the reel, my men suddenly stopped 

 poling, and, to my dismay, Harrison said : " That 

 salmon is behind the ledge ; we must get on the 

 other side of the rapid right away if we wish to 

 save him." I was a little angry, for the men should 

 have told me that there was a ledge on that side. 

 We had just started to go across when I felt a tug, 



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