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or five lines out and never stop the engines to play a fish. They 

 use enormous weights of lead as some of the fish lie deep. 



When you get on to the "Banks," which you can easily tell 

 by the numbers of seabirds feeding, you will be in water from 

 twenty to thirty fathoms deep, and to get the biggest fish you 

 will have to get down. This will probably necessitate letting out 

 a very much longer line and using more lead also than you 

 would for fishing in inland waters. The fish move about in 

 schools. In some of the schools the fish run to heavier weights 

 than in others, so if you come on a school and begin to get fish 

 of thirty to forty pounds and you want only bigger fish, you had 

 better leave that school and hunt up another. One good way to 

 do it would be to explore with the professionals' tackle, then as 

 soon as you find a school of really big fish, take in your heavy 

 tackle and use your rod. 



You could fish entirely from the launch if you have an engine 

 you can run dead slow, otherwise you must take a row-boat out 

 with you and fish from that. 



You will require a specially strong gaff with at least a five 

 or six foot handle if you are going to do your fishing from a 

 launch. 



A species of brass "Stewart" is used by all the professionals. 

 Most of them make their own and you could always purchase 

 some from them if your own skipper cannot make them. 



Above all things avoid split "rings," use the ones you 

 "solder" or else bind on both hooks and swivel with strong piano 

 wire and put on fresh wire after every big fish is caught. 



CAMPBELL RIVER 



Campbell River is the headquarters for the big tyee salmon 

 and ranks with Cowichan River as world famous fishing water. 

 A few years ago during the month of August you would find 

 scores of fishermen there from all parts of the globe, having 

 come especially to land some of the monster salmon that yearly 

 come to the river to spawn. In those days it was not considered 

 anything much to land two or three fish between forty and fifty 

 pounds with several cohoes in addition before breakfast. Unless 

 a fish was sixty pounds or over, it attracted very little atten- 

 tion. Apart from the pleasure of fishing it was well worth any- 

 body's while to go there for a few days and meet men from all 

 over the world and just to watch the fishing whenever there was 

 a favourable tide. 



You might, perhaps, seo as many as sixty boats all fishing 

 at the mouth of the river, with a few Indians in canoes in addi- 

 tion. There would be men, women, and often children, with 

 every conceivable form of tackle, some with hand lines only, 

 others with huge eighteen foot salmon fly rods and many Ameri- 



