. Pleasures of angling with rod and reel for trout and salmon . s hooked his tussle was severe and protracted. The fishwas a stubborn brute, always doing just the verything it was hoped he would not do — rushing andleaping and sulking in such eccentric and perverseways as to keep his captor moving backward andforward like a wearied sentinel at his post. If thefish continued to thus turn upon his own trackslong enough, his capture, sooner or later, would bereasonably sure. But nothing is more uncertainthan the movements of a hooked salmon, and thoseof us who had ceased fishing to witne
. Pleasures of angling with rod and reel for trout and salmon . s hooked his tussle was severe and protracted. The fishwas a stubborn brute, always doing just the verything it was hoped he would not do — rushing andleaping and sulking in such eccentric and perverseways as to keep his captor moving backward andforward like a wearied sentinel at his post. If thefish continued to thus turn upon his own trackslong enough, his capture, sooner or later, would bereasonably sure. But nothing is more uncertainthan the movements of a hooked salmon, and thoseof us who had ceased fishing to witness the battlewere not surprised when this lusty rascal made adash down stream which soon brought the Generalto the end of his walk, and compelled him to taketo his canoe to prevent the fish from making hisescape; for you might as well try to hold a two-yearold colt with a cotton thread as a rushing thirty-pound salmon by a direct pull on an exhausted is for this reason that I always stick to my canoeduring such a contest. You are better able to fol-. PLEASURES OF ANGLING. 179 low where your fish leads. It would of course bedifferent if wading were possible, but the wateris generally too deep for that sort of fishing—alto-gether the most artistic and fascinating wherepracticable. As the General could not wade, hewas forced to take to his canoe, which he did withgreat promptness and dexterity, but not an instanttoo soon. A delay of the twentieth part of a min-ute would have left him Ashless and thus again master of the situation, the con-test was resumed by both parties with great angler since the days of Nimrod ever played afish more skillfully, or more fully enjoyed the exer-cise ; but it was not until after a two hours fight,extending over a distance of more than a mile, thathe was brought to gaff. He weighed thirty-fourpounds, and was the harbinger of many others likehim captured in these pools during the period weremained at the Forks. I r
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