ANGLING EXTRAORDINARY 



it must, in effect, be of just as much weight as one 

 can handle single-handed with the heavy line. 



The steelhead will follow the fancy of fresh- 

 water trout in its selection of flies. In habits some- 

 what like the fresh-run salmon, it still rather favors 

 the fresh-water trout, and it is not customary to 

 angle for it with the gaudy flies which alone serve 

 in salmon angling. In the summer evenings the 

 local anglers favor gray hackles, brown hackles, or 

 some modest fly of that description. Number one 

 hook large enough for any black bass in the world 

 is a favored size for that river. It is to be under- 

 stood that the strain on the tackle is extreme. The 

 hook must be large enough not to tear out of the 

 fish's mouth. At times in the evening the coachman 

 or even the white miller is found effective. Most 

 anglers will change flies during the day as they do 

 on any trout stream. The usual uncertainty as to 

 what the steelhead actually is going to want is before 

 you all the time. At the time of the writer's visit 

 the gray hackle was perhaps the best fly in use. 



In a river like this it is naturally some time be- 

 fore a fish can be subdued after it once is hooked. 

 The angler will have a fight on his hands every 

 minute of the time that he is engaged, he may rest 

 assured of that. He sometimes will have rushing 

 tactics, boring and sulking sometimes; but his fish, 



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