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the skill, at any rate until the lure be taken, depending 

 on the manipulation of the boat by its two oarsmen. 

 The fisherman sits in the stern of the boat, with his 

 back to the bows. He has generally two rods, one 

 over each quarter of the boat, and with about 30 yards 

 of line out on each. The rods are fixed at right angles 

 to each other, and kept in this position by shoes in 

 the bottom of the boat for the butts and cleats on the 

 gunwale of each quarter for the lower joint of each rod 

 to rest in. A spoon is generally used as a lure on 

 one rod and a fly as lure on the other. The lines 

 are allowed to drift down-stream behind the boat, 

 which, starting at the head of each stretch, and the 

 boatmen pulling slowly against the stream, is per- 

 mitted to drop very gradually down the river. By 

 the experience and judgment used in keeping the lures 

 at a constant and best possible speed through the 

 water, and moving in sweeping curves from bank to 

 bank of the river across which the boat is being pulled 

 from side to side, the lures are presented to the salmon, 

 etc., in a more or less perfect manner. 



The music of the reel and the pull on the rod at 

 once informs the fisherman that he has a fish " on," 

 and he, seizing the rod on which the salmon is hooked 

 with one hand, passes the other rod with the other 

 hand into the ready grasp of the after-boatman, who 

 having already thrown his oar on board, is waiting to 

 receive it. The fisherman then proceeds to play his 

 fish, and while the after-boatman reels up the line on 

 the spare rod, the other keeps the boat going. As 



