1 88 The Pacific Salmon 



taken with the spoon or with a variety of flies. 

 Ten-pound fish are about the usual size, and each 

 may be depended upon to furnish a long fight. 

 During the open season many anglers from 

 San Francisco fish for steelheads in Olema River 

 and about the head of Tomales Bay. The spoon 

 for taking the steelhead is much smaller than 

 that used for salmon in Monterey Bay, although 

 different sizes are found among fishermen, rang- 

 ing from Nos. 2 to 5. The lines are mostly silk, 

 fifty yards being about the maximum length. 

 Worms, grasshoppers, and minnows are used for 

 bait in spoon casting. Some anglers cannot be 

 induced to use bait, much preferring fly fishing. 

 Flies of the usual varieties found in anglers' fly 

 books are brought into use in fishing this 

 stream. Men and boys living in this locality, not 

 possessing the expensive tackle of the anglers, 

 fish with common bamboo poles, both with and 

 without reels; some have silk lines, but the ma- 

 jority use linen lines. Fishing is done almost 

 wholly from the banks of the river, wading the 

 stream, and from marshy points projecting into 

 the bay, and occasionally from a small boat or 

 skiff anchored off some favorite spot near the 

 shore. 



