CHAPTER III 



THE FISH AT THE CAMPBELL RIVER 



Different names have been given by differ- 

 ent sportsmen to the salmon found on the 

 Pacific Coast. 



Sir R. Musgrave talks of spring salmon of 

 53 lb. and silver salmon of 16 and 8 lib. 



I inquired carefully from the manager of the 

 Cannery Factory in Quatiaski Cove, and be- 

 lieve the following to be the correct nomen- 

 clature. 



The tyee or King salmon, running from 28 lb. 

 to 60 and upwards. 



The spring salmon, which appeared to me to 

 be the young tyee, having the same relation 

 to the big tyee as the grilse has to the salmon, 

 from 15 to 20 lb. 



The cohoe, which run from 7 to 12 lb. ; and 

 lastly the blue back, generally termed cohoe, 

 averaging about 6 lb. 



These latter most of us called cohoe, and were 

 the fish being caught on my arrival at the hotel. 



The run of tyee had not regularly set in, 

 though a few odd ones were being caught. 



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