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course, with the twenty-pounders of the Santa 

 Inez, but a splendid fish. A sort of sea-going 

 rainbow some consider the steelhead, or salmon 

 trout, as I prefer to call it, and of all the tribe 

 (may they never weigh less) it is to me the most 

 attractive, the hardest fighter, and the one who 

 never spells defeat. Along those attractive 

 shores of the Rogue it comes in from the sea in 

 early spring; in the fall and winter and at other 

 times is supposed to lie offshore, as I have seen 

 it five miles out in Monterey Bay; but every- 

 where Sal mo rivularis is a game fish in every 

 sense of the word. 



We lunched alongshore with the anglers in 

 high waders, and exchanged stories about the 

 big steelheads that came up the Rogue, in the 

 interests of the tackle men and fly-makers. 

 The anglers here recognized several " runs " 

 from the sea. The winter run begins in January 

 and continues to May; then there is a summer 

 run which seems to last into fall. 



Among the anglers was an old fellow whose 

 boat was hauled on the sands, who, it was said, 

 took tourists fishing. He had a remarkable 

 scale of prices, first, second, and third. The 

 first-class passenger fished; the second-class cut 

 bait, and the third baited hooks, a real penance. 



