SOME FISH AND SOME FISHING 



heavy fines, had succeeded in driving away 

 the Japanese poachers, who for several 

 years openly defied the law, and poached 

 the salmon with every known device from 

 dynamite to illegal meshed nets. 



Discovery Strait is a stretch of salt water, 

 an arm of the Pacific ocean, which separates 

 Vancouver and Valdez Islands, and is about 

 two and one-half miles wide. If it were not 

 for the great current and strong tides that 

 flow through the straits it would remind one 

 of a Swiss lake, for you are surrounded by 

 hills beautifully wooded with splendid fir- 

 trees, and snow mountains show plainly in 

 the distance. 



The best fishing is along the shore of 

 Vancouver Island, a stretch of water one 

 mile below and half a mile above the sand- 

 bar at the mouth of the river. The current 

 is so swift that it is almost impossible to 

 fish except at the change of the tide or at 

 half -tide. As the mode of fishing is trolling 

 with a spoon, it is impossible to make enough 

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