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boo almost identical with that used for yellow- 

 tail, or a good noib-wood rod and long tip not to 

 weigh over twenty-six ounces and between seven 

 and eight and a half feet long, a number twelve 

 or eighteen cuttyhunk line, with a 7/0 O'Shaugh- 

 nessy hook and short wire leader with two swivels, 

 baited with a three or four inch sardine or smelt. 

 The angler trolls slowly, with bait twenty or thirty 

 feet down, or at times he may try the surface with 

 good luck ; but a sinker, as a rule, is an essential. 

 Mr. Hermann Oelrichs, a well-known expert in 

 this sport, who has landed four hundred and fifty 

 pounds of salmon in one fair morning off Mon- 

 terey, representing thirteen fish, uses a seven-foot 

 rod with ample reel. Mr. J. Parker Whitney, 

 according to the Sunset Magazine, fishes with a 

 steel Bristol trolling rod seven and a half feet in 

 length, weighing but eleven ounces. His line is 

 a linen sea-bass, number eighteen, with a large 

 multiplying reel holding five hundred feet. His 

 hook is a large Kirby soldered to a brass wire 

 with a linked wire leader about a foot in length, 

 all connected by swivels. The sinker weighs four 

 ounces. With this outfit, with smelt bait, fishing 

 thirty feet down, Mr. Whitney has had phenome- 

 nal luck, averaging eight salmon a day ; the weight 



