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to attract them when feeding. The coho 

 salmon, which runs from five to ten pounds 

 in weight, are at times very plentiful. The 

 professional fishermen take as many as 

 seventy in a day's fishing, and the cannery 

 on Valdez Island pays ten cents apiece for 

 the fish. For the tyee salmon they allow 

 one cent a pound. I saw two coho salmon 

 taken with a fly in the open sea, fish of about 

 eight pounds in weight; but as the fish are 

 moving you might cast all day without rising 

 one. 



I took the following fish in fifteen days: 



August 1 : 60 pounds, 48 pounds, 46 pounds. 



August 2: 49^ pounds, 51£ pounds, 15 pounds, 

 50 pounds, 46 pounds. 



August 3: 40 pounds. 



August 4: 45 pounds, 45 pounds, 42 pounds, 

 42 pounds, 40 pounds, 46 pounds, 47 pounds, 12 

 pounds. 



August 5: 45 pounds, 35 pounds, 30 pounds, 

 42 pounds. 



August 6: 42 pounds, 44 pounds, 35 pounds, 

 21 pounds. 



August 7 : 46 pounds, 40^ pounds, 41 pounds, 

 17 pounds. 



