[Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Charles Nordhoff]@TWC D-Link bookNorthern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands CHAPTER I 16/24
These bite sometimes at the fly.
The salmon bite, too, when much smaller, for I caught one day a young salmon not more than six inches long.
This little fellow was taken with a bait of salmon eggs, and his bright silvery sides made him quite different from the trout which I was catching out of the same pool.
His, head, also had something of the fierce, predatory, hawk-like form which the older salmon's has. Fry is an excellent fisherman himself, and knows all the best pools within reach of his house, and, if you are a mountaineer, will take you a dozen miles through the woods to other streams, where you may fish and hunt for days or weeks with great success, for these woods and waters are as yet visited by but few sportsmen. And if you happen to come upon Indian fishermen on your way--they are all peaceful hereabouts--you may get the noble red man's opinion of the great Woman Question.
As I stood at the road-side one day I saw an Indian emerging from the woods, carrying his rifle and his pipe.
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