With fly-rod and camera . is often fish are as hungry as spring bears, and voraciousas vultures; they snap eagerly at anything, from a troutliy to a pork rind, and feed freely on the spring smelt,which are ascending the rivers to spawn, but I do notbelieve that salmon ordinarily, those which have left thesea, and ascended to the river to spawn, feed while inthe fresh water. Ive been told by fishermen on the coast that thesaumon eat small fish when In the salt water, said Hiram. I have no doubt they do, replied Frere. Messrs. Hogan and Wyse, Dominion Fishery Overseers on the Mir
With fly-rod and camera . is often fish are as hungry as spring bears, and voraciousas vultures; they snap eagerly at anything, from a troutliy to a pork rind, and feed freely on the spring smelt,which are ascending the rivers to spawn, but I do notbelieve that salmon ordinarily, those which have left thesea, and ascended to the river to spawn, feed while inthe fresh water. Ive been told by fishermen on the coast that thesaumon eat small fish when In the salt water, said Hiram. I have no doubt they do, replied Frere. Messrs. Hogan and Wyse, Dominion Fishery Overseers on the MiramlchI, have Informed me of capelln and sometimes smelt belnsf found In their stomachs when first enterlnpf & the bay. I think they must be voracious feeders whilein the sea, and until the instinct seizes them to ascendthe rivers to spawn; after that, like bears In hibernation,they subsist upon their own fat. Yes, I replied, they must be great feeders, forthey increase In size and weight wonderfully In a very. The Dikfkrkxcf. a Fkesh-Run Salmon and a Sunk or Kelt. 8o WitJi Fly-Rod and Camera. short period, for instance: A kelt weighing ten poundswas marked, and returned to the river, in the lower partof which it was again caught after a lapse of five weeksand two days, and it was found to weigh over twentypounds. But, Frere, its growing late, and I propose thatthe tent be smudged out, and that we turn in. Agreed, replied my friend, and in a very shorttime we were lost in slumber, which comes so easily andso sweetly to the tired fisherman. CHAPTER II. An Early Cast. - Silver Doctors. • Cover the Water Thor(jughly. • ABig Sea Trout. ? Lively Times. ? How to Cook a Trout. • AnAdmirable Cast. • Another SALMO>r Hooked and Lost. • Fly PisonIN Demand. • Black Flies on the Magallowav. ? A Rough Experi-ence. • Playing a Drift Tree Top. • Two Fish Hooked and BothSaved. • A Great Struggle. • The Cup that Cheeks. • ^YE Ascendto the Fifth Pool. • Queer Ch
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