This Is the Champ 



design by Charles Harper 



To MIDWESTERN HOUSEWIVES, Pacific salmon is a name on a 

 label, but to Westerners he is a torpedo who delivers explo- 

 sive sport in all the bays and rivers from Monterey to Bering 

 Straits. There are salmon clubs and salmon derbies, with cups, 

 prizes, and television dates for the man who lands the biggest 

 fish. Practically all trout except the brook are close relatives, 

 and carry the salmon's belligerence into inland streams and 

 lakes, but the salmon's heft, which runs up to a hundred pounds, 

 makes him the champ. This is the king, or chinook, the best of 

 the five Pacific varieties. 



