There are no salmon leaping from the waters, though the idea is not farfetched, considering that some of the latest mansions by Seattle cyberbarons have come with hatchery fish runs.

But in the era of free agency, veterans are darting en masse from team to team like salmon leaping upstream.

By then we were back in the Hakai Passage, having passed seaward of the South Pointers reef, the sun burning up the fog and the salmon leaping.

In a shallow, below the narrow, deep and dangerous rapids called "The Trows," Mr. K- saw a salmon leaping in a very curious manner.

THE developers of a new restaurant at the popular Falls of Shin, where more than 50,000 tourists a year go to watching salmon leaping over the rocks, are to be asked to amend their planning application.

(Pope designed II Corps' badge of a salmon leaping over a stylised "brook", as a play on his commander's name.)

He postulates that such particles spend most of their time in a non-material or etheric state, momentarily leaping into the physical plane like a salmon leaping fleetingly into view above the water surface.

(Nearby is the Brig o' Feugh, where one can see the salmon leaping upstream.)

The Bridge of Feugh offers the chance to see salmon leaping and there are numerous fine golf courses nearby.

He had a talent for detail, and as he described the rivers, the salmon leaping out of the water, the sun glinting off their backs, I was there with him.