With fly-rod and camera . an has provedof great service to me on many occasions since I re-ceived it. Ha, ha! exclaimed Hiram, who had been listeningattentively, you beat the salmon that time. Have you ever noticed any peculiarities of habit insalmon selecting positions in a pool? I asked, they seemto be guided by certain preferences, and in certain stagesof the water lie almost always in particular spots, I cant say I have, replied Frere, other than thatyou speak of. They are very capricious, but always so-ciable ; where one settles all settle. As a general thino-they prefer the strong water
With fly-rod and camera . an has provedof great service to me on many occasions since I re-ceived it. Ha, ha! exclaimed Hiram, who had been listeningattentively, you beat the salmon that time. Have you ever noticed any peculiarities of habit insalmon selecting positions in a pool? I asked, they seemto be guided by certain preferences, and in certain stagesof the water lie almost always in particular spots, I cant say I have, replied Frere, other than thatyou speak of. They are very capricious, but always so-ciable ; where one settles all settle. As a general thino-they prefer the strong water near the head of the pool,especially if there are bottom rocks, forming resting these rocks are absent, the fish are often found nearthe tail of the basin, hardly ever in the very middle ofthe current, but almost always a little to one side or theother. One curious freak of this fish Ive observed on manyoccasions which is worth speaking of, for anglers are notgenerally aware of it. When salmon meet with a little. u 76 IFith Fly-Rod and Camera. fall, the)- will frequently lie for some time in the basinbefore attempting to scale it. If the river is small, theyare almost certain to refuse the fly. After scaling theheight, the fish for some unexplained reason linger in theswift water on the lip, and often have I raised and hookedthem on the rushing incline, so close, indeed, to the fall,that it seemed a mystery how they maintained their posi-tion. Here again the social instinct may be the cause,one or more lingering until joined by others. It is quite generally believed that salmon never eatanything in fresh water; what is your opinion? I have never found any food in salmon taken withthe fly, replied Frere. Why, then, do they rise for I cannot tell. The idea of many is that they areaffected in some strange way by colors, just as we knowcertain birds and quadrupeds are. * My idea is that they chase the fly mostly in sport,said I. I dont believe that generally they sei
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