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to a brand new rod and reel. The line was wound up and it 

 was discovered that there was a fish on it, which, after some 

 fight, was landed in the boat also. As near as I can remember 

 its weight was thirty-eight pounds. 



It afterwards transpired that it had been snatched out of 

 a man's hands who was too intent on watching somebody else 

 playing a fish, to hold his own properly, early in the morning 

 some five or six hours before. Dragging to recover it had been 

 fruitless and the owner, who had only just started fishing and 

 had no other rod with him, was packing up his things to leave. 



Silver Spring Salmon. By these fish are meant the ordi- 

 nary fish that can be caught more or less everywhere, fish that 

 go from ten pounds to thirty pounds. 



There is not a month in the year when they cannot be 

 caught somewhere, but the fish run best and are in the finest 

 condition both for sport and the table in the months of Decem- 

 ber, January and February. 



The rod and tackle used for this fishing is just the same as 

 for the tyees on a lighter scale, 125 yards of line being quite 

 sufficient. 



For baits a four-inch brass or copper " Stewart" used with 

 25 yards of line out and a 2% or 3-ounce lead will be about 

 right, though in some places much more lead is necessary. 



When herring are running there is nothing to equal them 

 for baits if they are made to spin properly, but a good working 

 "Stewart" is always -better than a bad spinning herring. You 

 can always buy herring tackle, but most of it is clumsy stuff. 

 The "Archer Spinners" are fair, but as they are generally made 

 on rotten gimp they are not recommended. It is a very simple 

 matter and less expensive to make your own. All you need 

 are a few 6/0 treble hooks, some piano wire, a small spool of 

 No. 26 plain wire, a few No. 6 swivels and a short piece of 

 copper wire about the thickness of the lead in a pencil. Cut 

 off two pieces of piano wire 11 inches and 17 inches long and 

 fasten a treble hook on to the end of each. Take the one with 

 the long wire and run it in at the vent of the herring, which 

 should not be over eight inches long, seven inches is about 

 right, and out at the mouth. Draw the shank of the hook well 

 up into the fish and bury one hook in the flesh. Then take the 

 shorter wire and run it in back of the shoulder and out at 

 the mouth, also burying the shank and one hook in the herring. 

 You now take a piece of the fine wire and bind up the mouth. 

 To make it spin take a piece of your copper wire and run it in 

 at the eye and down the flesh to the tail, taking care to keep 

 it well buried in the flesh and not in the stomach. It is advis- 



