WASHINGTON AND BRITISH COLUMBIA 



Their food in the ocean consists of live organisms, espe- 

 cially fish and crustaceans. They are particularly fond of sar- 

 dines, herring, smelt, tomcod and shrimp. Tyee are taken by 

 trolling with plugs, spoons, spinners, whole sardines or other 

 small fish— usually with a diving sinker to carry the lure 

 sometimes to a depth of a hundred feet. 



Many of the original pioneers who visited Campbell River 

 prior to the dawn of Tyee Club history, some thirty-eight 

 years ago, were accustomed to fishing for small salmon only. 

 Few of them had ever caught a game fish weighing more than 

 20 pounds and much of their early technique in tyee fishing 

 was crude. Half were following Indian practice, using heavy 

 handlines, and the few rod-and-reel men were thought to 

 be fairly sporty when they went after tyees with 12- to 15- 

 ounce rods and 30- to 45 -pound-test lines. 



Half a dozen men founded the Tyee Club— a trust-com- 

 pany executive from Philadelphia, a celebrated tuna-club 

 member from Los Angeles, a British colonel from Hong 

 Kong, an eminent doctor from Seattle and A. N. Wolverton 

 of Vancouver, British Columbia. Dr. J. A. Wiborn, famous 

 as the lone angler in Zane Grey's books, was named as the 

 first president and Mr. Wolverton became the first vice- 

 president. Formal organization under the Societies' Act of 

 British Columbia and the issue of a charter from the Provin- 

 cial Government was completed a year or two later. 



Today the active membership of the Tyee Club of British 

 Columbia totals more than six hundred— the members hailing 

 from half the countries of the world. It is interesting to 

 ponder some of the reasons which, through the years, have 

 developed the popularity of this club— an institution which 



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