OBSERVATIONS ON A SALMON RIVER 



water destroyed the odor of the "charm-oil," 

 but in fly-fishing I found it quite simple. 



My first attempt was when fishing on a 

 salmon river in Canada. The river was low 

 and the water quite clear. I had been fish- 

 ing over a salmon of fair size that could 

 readily be seen lying on the bottom close to 

 a large stone. 



After trying different flies as well as dif- 

 ferent sizes of flies with no result, I handed 

 the rod to my canoeman, an old and very 

 experienced fisherman, and told him to have 

 a try. He used all his powers of persuasion 

 to entice the fish but with no success. 



As he handed me my rod I said: "Now 

 I shall show you how to take that fish." 



I anointed the fly he had been fishing with 

 by placing a drop of "charm-oil" on the 

 hackle of the fly. On my second cast I rose, 

 hooked, and landed a 24-pound salmon. 

 This was not chance for it happened on sev- 

 eral occasions in a like manner, rising fish 

 that would not look at an "un-doped" fly. 

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