DCHP-1 Online
salmon stand Obs. 
a pool or quiet water in a river, where salmon rest during upstream migrations; a salmon pool.
- 1845 The Major smiled at the question, and gave me to understand it was a nickname of his own for the first sheet of smooth water--the first salmon-stand in fact below the bridge, where the fish reposed themselves after their fatigue of ascending the numerous scurs and rapids between Jacques Cartier and the St. Lawrence. . . .
- 1872 The bottom is gravel and sand, so the salmon "stands," vary more or less with the spring freshets, new pools being formed and old ones silted up or changed.
- 1845 The Major smiled at the question, and gave me to understand it was a nickname of his own for the first sheet of smooth water--the first salmon-stand in fact below the bridge, where the fish reposed themselves after their fatigue of ascending the numerous scurs and rapids between Jacques Cartier and the St. Lawrence. . . .