THE EAINBOW AT SEA (STEELHEAD) 



Much of the steelhead fishing in this locality is from the 

 banks, some from boats ; but the best fish are taken by wading in 

 arm-high rubber waders — a dangerous practice here, I think, on 

 account of the current and the deep pools. My guide told me 

 the story of a clergyman who hooked a large fish above a certain 

 pool and was gradually towed out and doAvn the stream, not 

 being able to stop the fish. Appreciating the situation, and that 

 the river swept through a narrow rocky gorge not far below, 

 the angler shed his waders, in some way not explained by 

 my man, and then, as the fish dashed downstream, plunged into 

 the channel and with the game was swept half a ntule, landing on 

 a sandbar where he played the fish to a finish. 



Mr. Alfred Beebe gives me the data on the next page relating 

 to his personal experience on the Eogue Eiver, Oregon. 



I can commend the Santa Ynez near Santa Barbara to the 

 angler in April, May or June, when the steelheads are in the 

 laguna at thp mouth of the little river which winds away through 

 wonderful golden fields of mustard. Here you wade and cast 

 a fly, spoon or bait, according to your conscience. The man 

 with the spoon wins in point of numbers. The angler with a 

 fly may not take anything, but I beUeve he has more joy in his 

 soul. Yet there are times when flies wUl not be taken under any 

 circumstances and the angler is justified ia using~_the spoon or 

 live bait — ^the real luxe for the steelhead trout. 



If the reader should by chance fish the Eogue he should follow 

 it up, or go back into the range, via Medford or Ashland, where 

 motor cars can be had, and visit the wonder of the world — ^the 

 hanging lake of Mazama, or Crater Lake, as it is called. Perhaps 

 he will pass up Ana Canonlto reach it, and possibly it will occur to 

 him that this canon, one of the most beautiful trout streams in 

 America, was cut out ages ago by the breaking of the waUs of the 

 crater, releasing this lake twenty-five miles around and of un- 

 known depth, producing a flood which might have established 

 a tradition of a Noachian flood in all JN'orth America. 



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