249 Fisning iv Amertcan WATERS. 
regarded the river as having been protected, and the pools 
rested long enough, and so mounted our toggery and ar- 
ranged our flies for the fray. It was the doctor’s turn for 
the upper pool, at the foot of the falls; the general’s for the 
bend to Rattling Run; the banker’s included all the opposite 
of the river, while my sporting-water was Rattling Run, and 
Thad never fished it. My gaffer was wanted elsewhere, and 
the doctor most generously consented to supply his place. 
He led the way with gaff on- shoulder, marching up to the 
first pool with an eda and energy which meant that he was 
determined to show me where salmon disported. After walk- 
ing half a mile through the brush, we emerged opposite a sal- 
mon-pool on Rattling Run. The run was about twenty rods 
wide, with shallow water three quarters of the distance to 
the opposite bank. The doctor pointed to the pool on the 
opposite shore, and told me that a salmon made a feint at his 
fly there two days previously. The water ran swift over a 
pebbly bed, but it was not much above knee-deep on our side 
of the pool. I waded to within casting distance of the head 
of the pool, and commenced casting while moving slowly 
down the stream, until, having made half a dozen casts, and 
swept the surface with great care, I delivered my fly just 
above a rock near the foot of the pool, where a salmon made 
its appearance and rose to take the fly, but missed it. The 
next cast delivered the fly beyond and below the rock, in the 
white-water foam, when the salmon accepted the fly, and fast- 
ened good and strong. Instead of turning to the falls just 
below, he shot up to within a few paces of me. The doctor, 
seeing his move, ran below the salmon to prevent it from 
dashing down the chute. For a full half hour while the play 
lasted, it was so amusing to see the doctor run and flourish 
the gaff in his endeavor to drive the salmon to the pool 
above that I could hardly restrain my laughter enough to 
stand and steady the fish’s head occasionally against the cur- 
rent. But the doctor finally conquered, and the fish became 
so fatigued that the doctor took him out of the wet with his 
