. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18. Scientific expeditions. 154 Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18 as quickly as possible so that the fish has no time to wriggle itself free. The Eskimo uses the back of his hands, or the wrists, in puUing up the line, hand over hand, instead of grasping it each time in the fingers; it is really a much quicker method. If the hne is very long, however, it may become tangled in its own folds, or the fish may drop off before it reaches the surface; the native therefore runs back with his rod from the hole, and gradually slows down to a walk as the
. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18. Scientific expeditions. 154 Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18 as quickly as possible so that the fish has no time to wriggle itself free. The Eskimo uses the back of his hands, or the wrists, in puUing up the line, hand over hand, instead of grasping it each time in the fingers; it is really a much quicker method. If the hne is very long, however, it may become tangled in its own folds, or the fish may drop off before it reaches the surface; the native therefore runs back with his rod from the hole, and gradually slows down to a walk as the fish approaches the under-surface of the ice. J^r-. (Photo by G. H. Wilkins) Fig. 50. Jigging for fish through an ice-crack ia a lake near Bernard harbour A hole is usually exhausted in about an hour, for the fish become cautious and keep away from the hook. The fisherman has therefore to dig four or five holes, as a rule, in the course of the day. A small lake yields almost nothing on the second day. Lake trout must find plenty of food during the winter, for many of them are very fat in the spring even before the ice round the edges of the lakes has begun to melt. They seem to stay near the bottom at this period. Lake salmon lie more dormant, and are smaller than those that have access to the sea. We caught none at all in the Colville hills until water had formed round the edges of the lakes. Both trout and salmon appear to love the sunlit pools into which the streams from the hills pour their waters. In one such pool a woman caught twenty-nine trout and two salmon in the space of four hours, while three of us who had dug holes not a hundred yards away could hardly raise a bite. The next day, however, only four fish were caught in the same pool. When a fish bites, but is not hooked, the native cries keuk keuk, "Come again" or keuk allaralumik kannakoktumik, "Come again, another one; there are plenty down ; After the fish is drawn up, it is killed wit
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