184 The Pacific Salmon 



taken in tide water, chiefly by professional fisher- 

 men, using from twenty to thirty boats ; but many 

 anglers come for sport fishing, and occasionally 

 capture fish weighing forty or fifty pounds. It 

 takes the sportsman an hour on the average to land 

 one of the larger fish. 



Only a few salmon have been taken by trolling 

 in San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento River. 



At Red Bluff and other points farther up the 

 Sacramento River, in places not over four hun- 

 dred or five hundred feet wide, farmers and other 

 people living in the vicinity place lines across the 

 stream, to which are attached seven or eight 

 spoons, equal distances apart, suspended from 

 the main line by snoods about two feet long, thus 

 forming what might be termed a surface trawl. 

 The current striking the line keeps the spoons in 

 motion, which answers the same purpose as a spoon 

 on a line handled from a boat. In this way six or 

 eight salmon are sometimes taken in a day on a 

 single line. No bait is used, and no fishing is 

 performed along the banks of the river with either 

 fly or spoon. At Battle Creek in the same region 

 salmon are frequently taken by casting a spoon 

 below the racks used in closing the stream near 

 the government fish hatchery. 



