The Chinook of Monterey 389 
boo almost identical with that used for yellow- 
tail, or a good noib-wood rod and long tip not to 
weigh over twenty-six ounces and between seven 
and eight and a half feet long, a number twelve 
or eighteen cuttyhunk line, with a 7/o O’Shaugh- 
nessy hook and short wire leader with two swivels, 
baited with a three or four inch sardine or smelt. 
The angler trolls slowly, with bait twenty or thirty 
feet down, or at times he may try the surface with 
good luck; but a sinker, as a rule, is an essential. 
Mr. Hermann Oelrichs, a well-known expert in 
this sport, who has landed four hundred and fifty 
pounds of salmon in one fair morning off Mon- 
terey, representing thirteen fish, uses a seven-foot 
rod with ample reel. Mr. J. Parker Whitney, 
according to the Suzset Magazzne, fishes with a 
steel Bristol trolling rod seven and a half feet in 
length, weighing but eleven ounces. His line is 
a linen sea-bass, number eighteen, with a large 
multiplying reel holding five hundred feet. His 
hook is a large Kirby soldered to a brass wire 
with a linked wire leader about a foot in length, 
all connected by swivels. The sinker weighs four 
ounces. With this outfit, with smelt bait, fishing 
thirty feet down, Mr. Whitney has had phenome- 
nal luck, averaging eight salmon a day; the weight 
