Sport on land and water : recollections of Frank Gray Griswold . SALMON, sA AND 50 POUNDS. AN EARLY MORNINGS CATCH OF SALMON SALMON FISHING 121 hand-lines, with heavy lead and smallsilver or copper spoons, the lead beingabout twenty feet away from the is most interesting to watch the Indiansstanding in dugout canoes handling thefish, gently playing it, and finally clubbingit on the head, when the fish, having foughtits battle, has succumbed. It is said thatthese fish return to the river to spawnafter having left it four years before, andthat, after spawning, they all perish. Thisseems
Sport on land and water : recollections of Frank Gray Griswold . SALMON, sA AND 50 POUNDS. AN EARLY MORNINGS CATCH OF SALMON SALMON FISHING 121 hand-lines, with heavy lead and smallsilver or copper spoons, the lead beingabout twenty feet away from the is most interesting to watch the Indiansstanding in dugout canoes handling thefish, gently playing it, and finally clubbingit on the head, when the fish, having foughtits battle, has succumbed. It is said thatthese fish return to the river to spawnafter having left it four years before, andthat, after spawning, they all perish. Thisseems hard to believe — hard to believethat a fish can grow to the size and acquirethe strength that these fish do in so short atime; for I saw one giant, taken on a hand-line, that weighed 72 pounds at the cannerysome hours after he was taken, and I killeda fish myself that weighed 60 pounds. These fish came from the north, and arefound off Kitmat, some four hundred milesnorth of Campbell River early in May,but do not appear at the latter place beforeAugust 1. Most of the amateur fisherm
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