SALMON FISHING AT CAMPBELL RIVER 



spend most of their time repairing outfits 

 and buying new lines and spoons. 



The fish feed on small bright herring, 

 which abound, and any bright spoon seems 

 to attract them when feeding. The coho 

 salmon, which run 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 with- 

 out rising one. 



I took the following fish in fifteen days: 



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



August 2: 49% pounds, 52% 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. 



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