70 SPORT IN VANCOUVER 



Mr. Griswold had a silver spoon invented by 

 a friend of his, or himself, for which a patent 

 was about to be applied. He naturally, there- 

 fore, did not wish to give away the secret. It 

 certainly was a most killing bait, and Mr. 

 Griswold, between his special spoon and his 

 tarpon methods, killed more fish than any of 

 us for the time he remained at the Campbell 

 River. 



He most generously lent me one of his pet 

 spoons on a day he was hauling in fish and I was 

 getting nothing. I was promptly in a big fish 

 which broke me, owing to the line jamming 

 round the Nottingham reel, and away went the 

 patent spoon. I did not feel justified in examin- 

 ing the spoon too closely or taking a drawing 

 of it. It seemed longer than the Farlow spoon. 

 The hook was suspended by a chain and 

 the bait seemed to wobble rather than spin. 

 The material was metal with bright silver 

 plating. 



An ordinary large-sized silver Devon Minnow 

 spun from the boat, or at Cape Mudge from 

 the shore, will take cohoe, and good sport can 

 be obtained in this way. 



A Tacomah spoon is deadly for cut-throat 

 trout, but I preferred the fly. 



Traces. — I took out some specially strong 



