THE BIG SALMON AT MIDDLE CAMP 81 



and landed five fish that averaged 25§ 

 pounds — 27, 27, 26, 26, 22. 



The pool has changed in late years and 

 the lower part has now a mirrorlike surface, 

 for owing to the ice and freshets of early 

 spring it has become filled with stones and 

 rubble. 



A point of rocks juts out into the pool 

 from the right bank of the river and just 

 below this reef the water is over three fath- 

 oms deep. This deep hole extends for 

 quite a distance up-stream, and its upper 

 edge shelves up gradually into rapid run- 

 ning water. 



It is here in this rapid water that the 

 salmon lie when the river is of normal height, 

 but if the water is low, the fish drop back 

 into the deep hole below the rock. 



As I sat watching the pool I saw a large 

 fish rise from time to time below the rock, 

 apparently attracted by the foam and air 

 bubbles coming from the swirl of the waters, 

 which was caused by the flow of the strong 

 current against the point of rocks. 



