WHAT THE DORADO IS. 
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months the water may be too high, indeed 
usually is, and you must have low water for 
dorado : or the fish may be out of condition. 
So little in fact is known of the fish that it is 
not recorded either when or where he spawns. 
In this state of general uncertainty, nothing 
can be said which has any approach to accuracy. 
One would like to think that he did migrate. 
One would like to imagine this bold traveller 
passing the winter, if winter it can be called, 
far north in the tropic, and returning in summer 
to renew his vigour in cooler waters. It would 
please the imagination to believe this. But that 
is a matter for the imagination, and is no 
concern of the fisherman. Let him know that 
the fishing season is from September to January, 
autumn and winter in our land, but spring and 
summer over there : that October and November 
are the best months : and that he should not go 
to the Alto-Parana before the middle of October. 
Then, when his canoe is almost pulled over by 
the first mad rush of a dorado, he will not find 
himself speculating very deeply on the problem 
of where that forty pounder passed the winter. 
