BACK FROM THE BRINK: Saving Atlantic Salmon from Extinction, One Parr at a Time by Tom Keer
Low gray clouds that spurt rain have
they’ll sit in their trucks and wait out
anglers, they’ll know that the best
different effects on fly anglers. When
the downfall. When the rain stops
fishing is yet to come.
a low-pressure system rolls down the
they’ll head back to the river for
river and the first drops fall, some
more. The hardiest of them simply
Steady rain brings cooler
anglers make a beeline for pancakes
pull rain gear from the back pocket
temperatures and richly oxygenated
and coffee at the nearest greasy
of their vests and keep fishing. The
water to a salmon river and a rise
spoon. As the rain falls harder, others
funny thing is that the latter group
in levels that lights everything up.
make “one last cast” after another
might have done a rain dance in the
The higher, faster water enables
until they can take no more. Then
first place: If they’re Atlantic salmon
fish returning from the sea to leave
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