LET US GO AFIELD 



single-hand tackle, any angler will know very well. 



The Mississippi River bass fishing, where one 

 may play a black bass ten or fifteen minutes in the 

 heavy current, is a sort of kindergarten preliminary 

 in the study of steelhead angling. The vigor of the 

 fish on the line is something not quite understand- 

 able by the eastern angler who has never played this 

 particular game. Pound for pound, in his own 

 chosen conditions, the steelhead puts up a far fiercer, 

 wilder, and more difficult fight than does the most 

 difficult example of salmo solar in the highest priced 

 salmon river in the world. 



He is, moreover, democratic. There are no sal- 

 mon preserves on the Rogue River as yet ; it is open 

 water for all the world. Very likely it always will 

 be. Certainly if you took all the members of the 

 swellest salmon clubs of Quebec and New Bruns- 

 wick and put them on the Rogue River on foot, the 

 fish they would bring in at night would not always 

 be very imposing in the total. 



Time was when the steelhead could be reached 

 from the shores of the Rogue River with fair suc- 

 cess, but he has learned a thing or two in the fight 

 for life and today he is a wise, wise fish. He keeps 

 out so that you are obliged to wade and wait for 

 him if you want him. If you slip good-by! The 

 river gets you. Anglers do swim out of the Rogue 



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