Feb. 27, 1909.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Artificial Salmon Pools. 
Quebec, Can., Feb. 20 . —Editor Forest and 
Stream: All salmon anglers know that salmon, 
when in fresh water, prefer to rest in a gentle 
current, avoiding deep pools when possible. 
These fish regularly resort to certain places in 
rivers where the current and other conditions 
are suited to their habits. Such resting places 
are known as salmon runs, reaches or pools. 
Where these resting places do not exist, arti¬ 
ficial pools may be made, in which salmon will 
linger if proper conditions are provided. Some 
suggestions may be of value to salmon anglers 
who desire to have these fish frequent pools at 
desirable points on their rivers. 
It is advisable to make pools for high, medium 
and low stages of water, but especially for the 
usual depth of water in the river during the 
time set apart for fishing. Make these pools be¬ 
fore the salmon enter the river. Choose points 
near the heads of long or heavy rapids which 
tire fish when passing. Have pools close to the 
channel up which the fish pass. Secure a depth 
of three and a half to four feet, as salmon take 
the fly more freely from such water. 
Leave conditions unchanged in the channels 
through which the fish ascend. Regulate the 
force of the current to that found at points 
favored by salmon in the same depth of water. 
Place boulders or large rocks in the pool at 
the most favorable point, as salmon lie above 
or alongside such protection. Make low falls or 
cascades at heads of pools when possible. En¬ 
deavor to have pools at places where the entire 
water can be fished and from where the hooked 
fish can be followed. 
The following description of a pool which 
proved successful in the Jacques Cartier River, 
near Quebec, may be of interest, and aid other 
anglers in providing extra pools in their rivers. 
The lower part of this river has a bottom of 
immense layers of slate, which form steps of 
varying depth. A long and heavy rapid is 
situated just below a deep sluggish pool in 
which the salmon rested for want of a favor¬ 
able resting point, having a gentle current. 
Choosing a point near the head of this rapid, 
the owner found only six inches of water over 
the stones close to the channel. These stones 
were removed and the bottom of the river 
reached at a depth of about three and a half 
feet. The space so cleared is about thirty feet 
long by eight feet wide, easily fished from 
shore. Large stones and big slabs of thick slaty 
limestone were placed at the end of the space 
just cleared. A ridge of stones was arranged 
at the head of the run to act as a breakwater, 
to check the force of the current and also to 
form a cascade. 
Ihe slabs of slate or rocks in a pool give 
salmon confidence in their ability to escape at¬ 
tacks from behind which they instinctively fear 
and from seals, dogfish, etc., which prey on them 
when at sea. The cascade causes the water to 
take up extra oxygen from the air which ren¬ 
ders such water particularly attractive to all 
fish of the salmonidae family. 
Judging by the fact that the owner got three 
fish from it within two hours during the even¬ 
ing of the day following, it seems proved that 
this pool supplied the conditions salmon desired. 
Unfortunately, he had no further opportunity of 
fishing the pool again, as he left for Quebec 
next morning, but he expects to take many sal¬ 
mon from it next season. He also intends es¬ 
tablishing more pools at other points for next 
year and will be pleased to relate his further 
experiences in the columns of Forest and 
Stream. 
I trust that other anglers, who also have es¬ 
tablished successful salmon pools will relate 
their experiences through your paper, as the sub¬ 
ject is of widespread interest to salmon anglers. 
Henry Ievers. 
Fishing Around San Francisco. 
San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 17 .—Editor Forest 
and Stream: There has been but very little fish¬ 
ing done in San Francisco Bay or on any of 
the coast streams during the past month on ac¬ 
count of the extremely high water that has pre¬ 
vailed, and from present indications it will be 
some time before there is any sport in this line 
to be had. Steelhead fishing in Russian River 
had just commenced to get into good shape 
when the big storm broke. 
Sportsmen have been making every endeavor 
to have the law in that respect changed so that 
fishing might commence a month earlier, but 
their appeals so far have been without avail. 
The best steelhead fishing in coast streams is 
always in February and March, as the streams 
are so low later in the year that fish can be 
taken only in tidewater. An endeavor is being 
made to secure the passage of a law permitting 
fishing in tidewater the entire year as formerly. 
The few fish that are taken by anglers in tide¬ 
waters would never be missed from any stream, 
and as market fishermen would make no at¬ 
tempts to take fish for the market there is no 
reason why this fishing should not be allowed. 
An assault upon the State treasury, ostensibly 
in the interests of the preservation of the fish 
and game of the State, was made recently when 
Senator Wolfe introduced into the Legislature 
a bill providing for the creation of a State board 
of fish and game commissioners with fat salaries 
attached. If the bill becomes a law this State 
will have three fish and game commissioners 
with a yearly salary of $3,000 each instead of 
three unpaid commissioners holding office now; 
not because they have an appetite for tax eat¬ 
ing, but because they are presumed to be men 
of independent means genuinely interested in fish 
and game. The bill provides for a salary roll 
of $79,200 a year for the fish and game depart¬ 
ment of the Government, as against the yearly 
$38,820 paid out for salaries now. A compari¬ 
son between the present employees with their 
salaries as against the proposed list shows where 
the additional money will go if Wolfe’s bill be¬ 
comes a law. The three commissioners. General 
George Stone, Fred W. Van Sicklen and John 
Bermingham, Jr., get no salaries. Chas. A. 
Vogelsang, the chief deputy, gets $2,400; the 
license collector gets $1,680; the stenographer 
gets $720, and thirty-one deputies, hatchery 
superintendents and employees with salaries rang¬ 
ing from $2,100 to $648 get a total of $34,020, 
making a grand total of $38,820. Instead of this 
pay roll it is proposed to have three commis¬ 
sioners at $3,000 each, a secretary at $1,500, an 
attorney at $2,400, two chief deputies at $2,400 
each, a stenographer at $900, a messenger at $600, 
and fifty deputies at $1,200 apiece, making a 
grand total of $79,200. A. P. B. 
Newfoundland Angling. 
St. John's, N. F., Feb. 15. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: The trouting season opened Jan. 15, 
and “eager” anglers who perforce had re¬ 
mained inactive for the last few months, betook 
themselves to the various nearby lakes, and 
fished through the ice. I have seen a couple 
of catches reported, one eighteen dozen and 
one over thirty dozen. These were caught by 
country residents and brought into town and 
sold for twenty cents per dozen. 
Through the courtesy of the Minister of 
Marine and Fisheries, I have been favored with 
an advance copy of the wardens’ reports from 
some of the principal salmon runs. A glance at 
the returns for 1908 will show that American 
anglers preponderate. 
No doubt many anglers are now making 
dates for the coming season, and a perusal of 
the annexed lists may assist them in determin¬ 
ing the direction their footsteps will follow, 
when the wanderlust grips them. It must be 
remembered that these are only partial returns. 
GEORGE shears, ROBINSON’S HEAD. 
No. of. Av’ge, 
Salmon. Lbs. 
G. B. Carr, M.D., Lynn, Mass. 3 S 
D. M. Brett, Boston. 10 7 
A. D. Ingraham and party. 19 8 
Dr. Parker and party, Sydney. 5 7 
C. Dudley, Boston . 2 12 
M. Lassel, Sydney . 5 7 
J. B. Baxter and son, Boston. 5 7 
Mr. VVardwell and party, Boston. 10 9 
F. W. Brown, Boston. 10 7 
C. P. Fullertown and party, Sydney. 5 8 
Besides grilse weighing from 2 to 4 pounds. 
T. DOWNEY, GRAND RIVER, LOWER SECTION. 
No. of Average, 
Salmon. Pounds. 
Dr. Keegan, St. John’s. 8 8 to 2G 
T. R. Judson, Vermont.13 6 to 21 
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. McLean, P.E.I 5 OVz to UV 2 
Judge Sibley, Vermont. 1 10 
R. D. Starkweather, Troy, U.S.A. 4 3 to 12 
VV. F. Bradford, Bington, U.S.A_11 7 to 12 
Col. Tucker, St. John, N. B. 10 10 to 20 
Thos. Ryan, Grand River. 1 27 
Besides grilse and trout. 
HURLEY AND MURPHY, SALMONIER RIVER. 
Mr. Donnelly and party. 80 2% to 6 
Mr. Rendell and party. 50 3 to 12 
Mr. Clapp and party. 22 3 to 10 
Mr. Tobin and party. 10 3 to 7 
Mr. Brehm and party. 15 3 to 14 
Mr. Percy and party. 12 3 to 7 
Mr. McBean and party. 7 3 to 12 
Rev. Reed and party. 40 6 to 8 
G. KNOWLING AND ANGUS M^QUARRIE, LITTLE RIVER. 
No. of Av’ge. 
Salmon. Lbs. 
Major Ashburton . 2 10 
Dr. Taylor, Philadelphia .;. 1 15 
Mr. Lewis, London . 3 9 
Mr. French, New Hampshire. 11 15 
Dr. Kettridge, New Hampshire. 6 15- 
John Jones, New York. 3 8 
J. H. Chauncey, New York. 3 7 
J. C. Force, Pittsburg, Pa.... 5 9 
Dry. Alyan, Pittsburg, Pa. 2 7 
J. C. McQuarrie, Lynn Mass. 2 8 
Mr. Wardwell, Boston, Mass. 6 12 
Rev. J. McGuan, Boston, Mass. 6 10 
Dr. Thompson, Lynn, Mass. 12 10 
Dr. Pitzmaurice, Cork. 15 10 
Rev. A. Woods, Newbury Port. 18 9 
Mr. Edwin Woods, New York.10 10 
Sir E. P. Morris, St. John’s. 1 10 
Mr. Brown, Denver . 3 7 
Dr. Wortenburgher, New York. 4 10 
Paul Van Dyke, New York. 4 8 
Dr. Steel, Plainfield, N. J.. 2 20 
Mr. Baker . 2 11 
Mr. Daggett, Boston . 15 19 
Mr. Campbell. New York. 5 9 
Mr. Priffer, Philadelphia. 9 14 
Mrs. Priffer, Philadelphia .. 5 7 
And a number of grilse weighing from 3 to 6 pounds. 
GEO. A. NICHOLS, UPPER HUMBER. 
No. of Av’ge. 
Salmon. Lbs. 
Dr. Sampson, New York. 5 9 
Mr. Hart and party, Melrose, Mass. 40 10 
Mr. Stewart, Halifax . 1 10 
Mr. Terry and sons, Scranton, Pa.26 14 
Mr. Patton and son, Dartmouth. 1 10 
Mr. Warburton, Boston . 5 8 
Mr. Lee, New York. 7 8 
1\'. F. Brown and party.25 10 
And a number of grilse weighing 3 to 6 pounds. 
W. J. Carroll. 
