Satmon Leaps AND Spray-Bows. VAT 
salmon. No one ever hears of'a string of salmon, for the very 
good reason that their bodies are so heavy and gills so ten- 
der that they will not sustain their weight. 
I put on another fly and cast again. For some time my 
eyes were not blest with the sight of a rise; but by-and-by 
a salmon accepted the fly in earnest and fastened. The prick 
of the hook gave it such a shock that it bounded and leaped 
three or four times, as quick as thought, several feet above 
the water. Finding itself still hooked, it came toward me, 
and I retreated, for fear that too acute an angle of the line 
and rod might enable it, by a salmon dash, to break the top 
of my rod. I therefore walked backward, and the salmon fol- 
lowed me until within five feet of the shore. It then turned 
as quick as lightning, and whir! whir! whir!! went my reel. 
Another leap showed it to be in the middle of the current, 
with but little le remaining on my reel, and a reef of rocks 
rising above the water between me and the salmon. I at 
once saw that it might extricate itself and take my fly and 
some of the line; but it misjudged its own situation, and 
started to leap the falls. By its failure I turned its head 
shoreward, and brought it within a rod of me, when it took 
fright again and started down the river. Atter checking and 
turning it, back it came to me, gentle as possible, leaping oc- 
casionally, as if it was its nature, for [should have thought a 
fish so circumstanced would have swam low; but no— all 
game fish are alike in that respect. Although the salmon 
had become used to my appearance, it still distrusted me, and 
started out into the current again. There he leaped a few 
times, and finally consented to be led back ; but when it gain- 
ed sight of the gaff it shot off again, though I could both see 
and feel that it was losing streneth. After two or three 
more visits to the shore it became weakened, and Duncan 
eaffed it. The fish weighed only sixteen pounds, but it was 
the prettiest salmon that [had ever seen, Above the line, 
from gill to tail,it was a light and brilliant salmon color, and 
below it was like polished silver. I could not help exelaim- 
