44 SPORT IN VANCOUVER 



day. Why many of these West coast men 

 should imagine that politeness means servility, 

 while roughness and rudeness only show 

 equality and independence of character, I 

 never could understand. 



It was not long before I was in a fish, but as 

 he was only a 5| R>. cohoe, he was hauled in 

 with scant ceremony and was soon in the 

 net. 



As I shall have something to ^ay about 

 tackle later on, I would only now mention 

 that I was fishing with a fourteen-foot Deeside 

 spinning rod, made by Blacklaw of Kincardine. 



I had a large Nottingham reel with 200 

 yards of tarpon line, purchased in England, 

 not, alas ! in New York; a heavy gut trace 

 with large brass swivels which would have 

 frightened any but a Vancouver salmon; a 

 4 oz. lead, I afterwards came to a 6 oz., and 

 one of Farlow's spoons specially made for the 

 tastes of Vancouver salmon. 



My bag that day, fishing morning and 

 evening, was only six cohoe, weighing 30J lb. 

 and one cod about 5 Sb. I never had a pull 

 from a tyee. 



The row home that evening compensated for 

 everything. The sun was setting behind the 

 snow-covered peaks of the Vancouver Moun- 

 tains, bare and cold below the snow-line, but 



