. Pleasures of angling with rod and reel for trout and salmon . XXI. A FOKEST PICTUBE AN UPSET IN LAZY BOGAN. There is, I think, a love of novelty in all anglers. We pre-fer to fish new waters when we can, and it is sometimespleasanter to explore, even without success, than to take fishin familiar places. New and fine scenery is always worthfinding.—[ W. C. Prime. ?, HERE are a few pools on this riveras on others, where an occasionalsalmon can be taken at any timefrom the first of June to the closeof the season. Among these isthe Shedden pool, which isknown as one of the very bestbetween tide-
. Pleasures of angling with rod and reel for trout and salmon . XXI. A FOKEST PICTUBE AN UPSET IN LAZY BOGAN. There is, I think, a love of novelty in all anglers. We pre-fer to fish new waters when we can, and it is sometimespleasanter to explore, even without success, than to take fishin familiar places. New and fine scenery is always worthfinding.—[ W. C. Prime. ?, HERE are a few pools on this riveras on others, where an occasionalsalmon can be taken at any timefrom the first of June to the closeof the season. Among these isthe Shedden pool, which isknown as one of the very bestbetween tide-water and the after the middle of July, it istoo near the sea to afford as richreturns as some others twenty or thirty milesfarther up. It is salmon nature when started ontheir annual pilgrimage, to keep moving untilthey reach their maternal destination. On thisriver their chief spawning-places are from fiftyto seventy miles from tide-water. But there arepools where they like to tarry on their journey;and we found none more generally thus honored. 160 PLEASURES OF ANGLING. than the pool referred to. Others might bewhipped in vain, but this seldom failed toreward the patient angler, no matter when or howoften it was visited. A monopoly of it for theseason would afford any reasonable fisherman allthe sport and pleasure he could desire, if he hadno other object in visiting these waters than tofish. But they greatly mistake the temper andtastes of the true angler who assume that he isattracted to these quiet places simply to kill and todestroy. To have the opportunity to fish consti-tutes but one of the threads in the golden cordwhich draws him to the grand old forests in whosemountain streams trout and salmon most do con-gregate. If he finds pleasure in the rise andstrike and struggle of a mammoth fish, so also ishe lifted up out of the rut of common-place emo-tions by his majestic surroundings — by the ever-shifting shadows on the mountain ; by the inces-sant music
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