396 Big Game Fishes 
prolific fishing ground, better known and more 
often fished than Carmel. The salmon in its 
habits presents many remarkable features—living 
in the ocean in its adult stage; taking to rivers 
to spawn; impelled by a marvellous instinct to 
seek the high waters of streams; leaping high 
falls; swimming up cascades which would be 
considered impossible had not the leap been seen, 
photographed, and measured; overcoming all ob- 
stacles, to reach at last a spot hundreds of miles 
from the winter home, to deposit their eggs only 
to die. The movement of these fishes, their re- 
markable ascent of streams, in fact, the complete 
cycle of their lives, with their many conditions, 
constitute one of the most fascinating pages in 
the history of game fishes of fresh or saline 
water. 
