Salmon Fishing 177 



Angling for Salmon 



It took the angler a long time to find out how 

 to fish for Pacific salmon. For a generation 

 people had been catching them in seines and 

 gill-nets, and putting them into tin cans at the 

 rate of millions of dollars' worth a year, but it was 

 not until about ten years ago that sportsmen as a 

 class woke up to the fact that there was good 

 salmon angling in the bays and tidal waters 

 generally. 



Information received by the United States Fish 

 Commission from various sources shows that an 

 important quantity of salmon is now taken regu- 

 larly by trolling, not merely by sportsmen, but 

 by the professional fishermen. 



In taking the Pacific salmons, whether in the 

 bays or rivers, the spoon must be depended upon 

 chiefly. Bright feathers attached to the hook 

 are advantageous. In the rivers the best success 

 is usually to be had below falls which the fish 

 have difficulty in passing. We have noticed that 

 salmon may often be taken below the racks 

 placed in the streams near Government fish 

 hatcheries, where their progress was arrested 

 temporarily, when they could not be taken at 



