III. 



WHERE TO FISH FOR SALMON. 



VERY salmon river has its fishable and 

 non-fishable pools, barren or prolific so 

 to speak. What a lovely pool, you 

 exclaim, in coming upon an unknown 

 river, there must be salmon there. There may be ; 

 but your attendant surprises you by exclaiming, 

 "Fish never rise in that pool." Why I cannot 

 tell, but they don't. You may fish it from morning 

 till night, and not a rise will you get. You see the 

 fish jumping in it ; you look down in it, it is swarm- 

 ing with salmon. In the pool below and runs 

 above, they take freely. What is the cause ? Is it 

 the light is it the state of the bottom of the pool 

 (perhaps all sand) is it that the fly does not come 

 round properly, or what is it ? It remains a mys- 

 terious problem, but it is a fact. 



