3o6 Reminiscences of 



THE salmon for canning are taken principally in 

 seining, although in late years large water-wheels 

 have been erected in favorable places on river banks 

 where the currents are rapid and where salmon iim, 

 which, revolving by the cvurents, take up at times 

 large quantities of the salmon heading up stream, 

 and in some instances have scooped up immense num- 

 bers, which by an arrangement of the wheel slide 

 into an adjoining compartment, and catches of a single 

 night have been made of a ntimber of tons in weight. 

 Spearing by the Indians and scooping up with large 

 hand nets are also followed to a large extent. 



Most sportsmen will agree that, tempered with ex- 

 perience and surroundings, they have a favoring, be- 

 tween fishing and shooting, for one over the other; 

 commencing with the extremity of boyish enthu- 

 siasm in the catching of minnows and smaU fish, 

 and the knocking over of sparrows, they advance in 

 more fixed preferences. I will own that, although 

 I have had some experience in the shooting line, 

 my preference is for fishing, which I have followed 

 more assiduously than shooting. 



In 1892, in the month of June, when at Monterey 

 on the California coast, a hundred miles south of 

 San Francisco, and visiting the hauls of the market 

 fishermen, as brought in principally by Italians and 

 Portuguese, I was interested in observing more or 

 less salmon brought in, which had been taken with 

 baited hooks on strong cotton handlines. This inter- 

 ested me so much that I accompanied some of the 

 boats which left at an early daylight hour, and as a 

 school of salmon had come into the bay, I saw a num- 

 ber of them taken, which was a revelation to me. 



