Identifier: fishermansluresg00rheauoft (find matches)
Title: Fisherman's lures and game-fish food : with colored pictures from life of various creatures fish eat and new improved artificial imitation floating nature lures and chart-plans to show the haunts where fish feed on them in lake and stream
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Rhead, Louis, 1857-1926
Subjects: Fishes Fishing
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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and they both spedonward side by side. I have captured many doublesof bass, trout, and ouananiche, but never had amixed double. For pure, undiluted anger and fury watch a bassas he repeatedly breaks from the water; how heshoots up so unexpectedly in different parts of thepool; where, we know not, till we see him quiveringin the air. He wastes no time in his eagerness toshake off the offending restraint; for a second wesee him shaking his body in a cloud of spray, then,with his big jaws snapping he goes down, only toemerge again in another second or two, a hun-dred feet away. If the mighty salmon had the same gamenessin proportion to his size, a forty-pound salmonwould be able to leap forty feet in the air, andnothing but steel wire would be able to hold hisfearful rushes. A large salmon will sometimesmake a long graceful curved leap; then, I haveseen him shoot straight up, turn a somersaultand dive straight down to deep water; in factthere is no movement he will not make in his lordly
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Landlocked salmonSalmo Sebago GAME-FISH THAT LEAP ABOVE THE SURFACE 113 anger. He will even run quite close to the angler,and so break water. No fish shows so varied amanner of acting when hooked on a fly. He willrun for a mile, the fisherman following on as fastas his legs will carry him, fearful lest his tackleshould part, and then, in the end, finds his salmonstock-still with his nose at the bottom and tailstraight up, try^ing hard to rub the hook fromhis mouth. There he stavs till he is well rested,and the angler makes every efiFort to stir him upand succeeds at last only to find that without amoments warning he has again started for thesurface with a powerful leap in a quarter littleexpected. Very many salmon break loose in theact of leaping. They know by experience a slackline gives the desired chance to flick the fly away.The landlocked salmon is rightly named a leap-ing salmon, and for his size shames his biggerbrothers in his acrobatic performances. How sud-denly he appears a

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