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heathen but gamy Rohu; ah, the very thought of 
it! May good luck always avert calamity when 
he is fishing, be it on the Clackamas, Indus, or 
Irrawaddy. 
Despite this unbending of the chinook to Kip- 
ling on the Clackamas, the sport with the fly on 
the Pacific slope is so uncertain that few anglers 
attempt it, and the principal salmon-fishing is in 
the waters of Santa Cruz, Monterey, and Carmel 
bays, where the splendid fish is certainly at home 
and affords sport of an exalted kind. Who landed 
the first salmon here is unknown to fame; but the 
angler who has made the sport the closest study 
is Mr. J. Parker Whitney of New York, who well 
deserves the following encomium from some 
appreciative brother angler, which I find in the 
Forest and Stream of Sept. 2, 1893: “Salmon 
fishermen the world over owe a debt of gratitude 
to Mr. J. Parker Whitney for his extremely inter- 
esting accounts of sea-fishing for salmon on the 
Pacific coast. Though that fishing has been 
known for years to a limited number of anglers, 
Mr. Whitney, as the first one to exploit the sport 
in an adequate description for the benefit of 
the guild, may fairly lay claim to its discovery. 
Others may have known of it as the Norsemen 
