The Journal of a Sporting Nomad 



preparation for the expected " run " of King 

 Salmon, which starts about the middle of April. 

 The fish arrive in myriads that is the only word 

 that expresses their numbers it was quite a 

 common sight to see as many as twenty thousand 

 on the floor of the fish-house at one time. They 

 are either caught in nets or seines, or in a trap 

 built out from the bank of the river. The 

 photographs reproduced speak more eloquently 

 than any words of mine of the ease with which 

 fish can be obtained. The small Indian boy 

 sitting on the rail had merely a roughly made 

 scoop net formed of galvanized wire-netting 

 affixed to a pole which he placed on the bed of the 

 river when the tide started to flood. In a few 

 minutes a fish would hit it, when he lifted it up 

 with a salmon kicking within. 



I wanted to see what I could catch by myself, 

 so borrowed a short length of four-inch-mesh net, 

 some twenty yards long by one and a half fathoms 

 deep. Even whilst I watched it after shooting 

 this net the fish commenced striking, as was 

 evidenced by the perpetual bobbing about of 

 the corks. I hauled it ashore after it had been 

 down not more than twenty minutes, and took 

 out seven splendid fresh salmon, two of which 

 were " humpbacks." The latter I returned to 

 the river, as this variety is not used either in 

 the canning operations or for edible purposes. 



If I wanted a salmon I had but to go to the fish- 



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