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rapid but not too difficult for pleasant fishing. Bull Run is one 

 of these, coining from Bull Run Lake, high up in the Cascades. 

 The south fork of Bull Run is a delightful stream and easy fly 

 fishing, but it is rather a toilsome walk from Aschoff's (a 

 charming place to stay), on the Barlow road, accessible by auto- 

 stage all summer. 



Ray Davis related to me recently an experience on ''Little 

 Sandy," as the south fork of Bull Run is sometimes called. He 

 left Salmon Post Office early one morning in August, 1913, and 

 tramped through the forest and mountains nearly five hours, to 

 the upper waters of the Little Sandy. He had good sport and 

 brought out a full creel; but better than that, he had the rare 

 experience of seeing the beaver at work. The beavers had made 

 several dams in this part of the stream, flooding considerable 

 tracts, and standing in these ponds, which are not very deep, 

 Mr. Davis could plainly see large numbers of cutthroat trout of 

 unusual size, doubtless bigger because of the more abundant food 

 and warmer waters of these ponds. And from these ponds he 

 caught a number of large trout which rose freely, though the 

 water was perfectly calm and clear — an unusual experience, es- 

 pecially for a fly fisherman. 



Eight miles above Aschoff 's Salmon River joins the Sandy, 

 and Mclntyre's at this point is a good hotel. There is a state 

 hatchery at this point also, and Salmon River is good fishing. 

 The trout of these tributary streams are cutthroat and rainbow 

 in about equal numbers, and steelheads for winter fishing. Also 

 great numbers of sea-run trout in the fall. 



The Oregon whitefish is also to be had at times in good 

 numbers in these streams, and takes a small fly freely. This fish 

 is a delicious table fish and scarcely second to the graylings as 

 a sporting fish, though not properly appreciated by most an- 

 glers, and by some wantonly . thro wn away and supposed to be 

 a worthless sucker, which is a great mistake. The whitefish of 

 our Cascades streams is now known as the Oregon Whitefish 

 (Coregonus Oregonus), varying very little from the Rocky 

 Mountain whitefish, which was the former classification of our 



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