hospitality, ready to help him learn the game, and 

 so well acquainted with the difficulty of the game 

 that they do not laugh at the inefficiency of the be- 

 ginner. 



In the Rogue River valley it is sometimes hot in 

 the summer time one hundred, one hundred and 

 two, one hundred and five in the shade, and no one 

 knows what in the sun. The heat does not seem 

 oppressive but it has a tendency, when continued 

 through a term of days or weeks, to drive the fish 

 out into the deeper water. Very early morning or 

 late in the evening will be the best time then to 

 angle for steelheads. Throughout the day one might 

 not get more than two or three strikes in reward 

 for patient casting. 



The rod for steelhead fishing must be -very power- 

 ful, of course. The fish can be killed on the ordi- 

 nary five-ounce or six-ounce trout rod, but one of 

 eight or ten ounces, built short, stocky, and power- 

 ful, is better. It must be able to handle a long line, 

 which means a heavy line, one practically of light 

 salmon size. As the angler wades deep in the water 

 there will be much line submerged in his casting, 

 and his rod must be powerful in order to lift it 

 as must his wrist be also. Once the fish is hooked 

 and free in that boiling torrent the rod has asked of 

 it all that any rod can give. To be most efficient 



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