Fish and Fishing 



est line well, and knows the river best, will hook 

 most fish in the season. 



TO GET THEM WITH LIVE BAIT 



Previous to 1893 no quinnat salmon were taken 

 on the Pacific coast by rod and line, but in that 

 year trolling for them was accidentally intro- 

 duced during the fishing for mackerel. 

 Salmon Inuring the summer months, the salmon 

 enter Monterey Bay to feed on large 

 quantities of sardines, smelts, and squid. The 

 method employed in fishing is hardly up to the 

 standard of the Atlantic coast; indeed, no fly 

 fishing is practiced; the quinnat fly has yet to be 

 invented. Meanwhile the fishing is done in two 

 ways: trolling with spoon, with and without bait, 

 and with baited hook attached below by a heavy 

 sinker. If bait is scarce a spoon is used, but nat- 

 ural bait is preferred. The most effective spoon 

 is the "Wilson," a No. 6 being most 

 w^th Sooon "^^^' It^ shape is long and narrow, 

 and rounded at each end. A great 

 variety and many different sizes of hooks are used 

 on the same size of spoon ; some use brazed treble- 

 hooks. But as soon as bait is obtainable, the 

 spoon is abandoned and the sinker is brought 

 into play. 



The gear consists of a linen line from nine to 

 fifteen thread, with a five-ounce lead sinker, hav- 

 ing a brass eye in each end to which the line and 

 snood are fastened. The snood is six feet in 

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