Eureka Reporter | 1905-04-28 | Page 3 | Salmon's Foresight

salmon s fores the salmon seems td be gifted with much intelligence or hereditary foresight as it Is occasionally called which Is more particularly acute when danged s geals are abroad says wil biam harris in field and stream tor november they have been known in the upper pools to become frightened by poachers approaching pro aching them with net or spear and 0 o immediately dash down stream to a distance of thirty miles in one night bot stopping until they had reached pools so deep that they could not be aken with the appliances of the poacher they seemed to know that t they went higher up the stream their doom was sealed when coming from sea in schools and on entering the estuary they have been seen with an old leader at the lead of the school the rest forming a triangle about tto and a halt feet below the surface of the water and n calm dais guided by the old pa they would swim around the fishermen s nets never approaching hem nearer than ten or twelve yards