FOREST, LAKE, AND RIVER 



English greenheart rod, in short order, though it 

 weighed twenty-one pounds. 



The best piece of sport that the novice had dur- 

 ing his first campaign against the salmon was the 

 killing of a foul-hooked fish weighing thirty-one 

 pounds. It was hooked near the adipose fin, and 

 took nearly three hours to kill. Even at the end 

 of that time, the Indian who gaffed the fish waded 

 forty feet into the river and secured it in three feet 

 of water. It seemed to me at the time that three 

 hours was too much time to spend over one fish, 

 but even with a rod over thirty ounces in weight, 

 I have spent close upon two hours in killing a foul- 

 hooked fish of thirty-six pounds, and over an hour 

 and a half in bringing to gaff one of twenty-five 

 pounds. 



It is difficult to imagine keener sport than that 

 afforded by the playing of a freshly run salmon ; 

 that is, one which has not been long in the river 

 from the sea. In some of its long runs to escape 

 from the hook and line which hold it captive, it 

 takes all the line from the angler's reel, and he 

 must follow it along the shore, or through the 

 water, if he is unable to do so in a canoe, or submit 

 to the loss of his fish and part of his tackle as 

 well. Often in its wild leaps for liberty, will the 

 gallant fish not only break water many times in 



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