SECRETS OF THE SALMON 



landed him after all the bad fishing we did. A 

 No, 10 Model Perfect or No. 12 Limerick pattern 

 is large enough to land any salmon in the later 

 season if it is handled properly and has hold of the 

 fish in a good place. I believe we all use too large 

 flies in the later season with the feeling that we 

 must have fair-sized hooks to hold the fish, and this 

 makes us miss a lot of fish we might otherwise 

 raise. 



Note 

 It is often of interest to know the weight of a 

 salmon when no scales are available. Mr. Wm. H. 

 Ward many years ago worked out a formula for 

 obtaining the weight of any fish by measurements 

 alone. He gave it: 



girth 2 X length 

 800 

 This formula is very accurate but it is difficult at 

 first glance to see how it was arrived at. Mr. Benj. 

 F. Kittredge worked out the solution as follows: 



The area of the base of a wedge multiplied by 

 half its length gives its cubic volume. The vol- 

 ume of a fish in cubic inches would be the area of 

 his middle section multiplied by half his length, 

 which is the length of two half wedges. If you 

 square the circumference of a given circle or square, 



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