CHAPTER XIV 



Game fish — Variableness of the season — Primitive methods 

 of angling — Salmon species — A thousand miles' swim — The 

 cohoe — The sockeye — The humpback — The dog salmon — 

 Trout species — The common trout — The steel-head — The 

 Kamloops — The Great Lake trout — The Dolly Varden — Brook 

 trout — Distribution of salmon and trout — Angling reaches — 

 Death of salmon after spawning — Theories — Fly and spoon 

 bait — Fishing rods — The course of the Fraser River — The 

 Coquihalla and Hope rivers — Angling on the Harrison River — 

 My Indian guide — Scepticism and faith — A fight with a twenty- 

 five pounder — The Harrison described — A second captive — 

 Invoking Adjidaumo — His blessing on a twenty-six pounder — 

 A visit to the Harrison Rapids — The cohoe run. 



GAME fish are plentiful throughout British 

 Columbia. The rivers and lakes vary in 

 their seasons, and a long and fruitless journey may 

 be made by rail or canoe, only to find that the visit 

 is ill timed. Water good in the spring is worthless 

 in the autumn, and vice versa. A good deal of 

 valuable time might be saved if reliable information 

 could be obtained on these points. I found it 

 extremely difficult to get any, as good anglers are by 

 no means plentiful in the province, and it is so vast 

 that the information is generally confined to a local, 

 and therefore a circumscribed, area. The primitive 



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