THE GAME FISHES OF THE WOELD 



amounts to nearly two million pounds. Dr. Jordan does not 

 believe the salmon have any special instinct which induces them 

 to return to the river from which they originaUy came. He 

 believes that the young descend and remain about the river, or 

 not more than thirty or forty miles distant, and that their return 

 to that particular river is due to the fact that it is the nearest 

 and most convenient. Once in the stream, they seem to play about 

 for some time, then enter the channel and swim steadily upward. 

 It is estimated that the salmon in the Sacramento make two 

 miles in a day ; in the Columbia three. But the spring run of 

 salmon in the Columbia make four miles, as an average, and, of 

 course, ten miles and more to enable them to reach the extreme 

 points given. 



The angler with the rod in visiting the Pacific coast of N'orth 

 America should not fail to include the splendid chinook, king, 

 or quinnat, call it what you will, in his itinerary, either off 

 Vancouver, Canada, in the many rivers, or at Monterey, where in 

 the bay of Monterey or that of Carmelo, it may be taken under 

 most interesting and agreeable circumstances. If the angler 

 finds his way to Upper Klamath Lake just over the line in Oregon, 

 he should try the little Williamson with a Wilson spoon and a rod 

 of something over eight ounces and 



' I shall stay him no longer than to wish . . . that if he be an honest 

 angler, the east wind may never blow when he goes a-fishing.' 



Isaak Walton. 



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