NOTES ON TWO MORE SALMON-RIVERS. 
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The Foss-pool, according to local experts, is the 
sanctuary of many big fish which run up thither very 
early. The main pool is totally unfishable. No boat 
can live on its raging flood, and angling from the two 
rocks that project across the outflow resembles (in May) 
casting into a heavy Atlantic surf, with spray flying 
high over one’s head. I paid special attention to these 
THE FOSS-POOL, FORDE RIVER. 
rocks, for if a fish did come here, he must come up 
almost beneath the angler’s feet, and I was most 
anxious to view the promised apparition of a phantom 
fish rising almost vertically, with open mouth, from 
the depths below. No such reward, however, befell. 
We tried all we knew to command this pool, including 
spinning with long lines from the top of the foss* 
wading from the north shore, etc., but all in vain. 
