Mountain in the Clouds
Field Notes -- 8/23/79
A PAGE from Bruce Brown's Mountain in the Clouds field notes, dated August 23, 1979. The sketch is captioned, "gutted female pink salmon on lower Graywolf awaiting illegal fisherman's return."
This is the fish described in the next to the last paragraph in Chapter Seven, a "pink salmon female that had been gutted and abandoned to the soft ball of maggots now unfolding on her tongue."

Painting and salmon sketch by Bruce Brown.
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