392 Big Game Fishes 
swivels, which loops up four or five inches of the 
regular linen line. The salmon, striking and 
holding the baited hook and giving the conse- 
quent strong pull, breaks the cotton line, and the 
sinker, liberated and of light value, drops away 
in the sea, leaving the salmon free and unimpeded 
for his vigorous and gallant fight, except for the 
fine line and rod strain.” 
As in white sea-bass fishing, the game is often 
discovered by the birds, shags and others, which 
are plunging down and swimming through schools 
of anchovies, playing havoc with the small fry, be- 
neath which the hungry salmon often lie like these 
bass, picking off the stragglers, or at times chasing 
and driving them in upon the rocks or into the 
surf. On this day the fish bite well, and the 
angler’s patience is not exhausted. The strike 
comes, and if you are an old salmon fisherman 
from the Restigouche country or elsewhere, this 
doughty chinook will treat you to some remark- 
able surprises and possibly to a new sensation. 
What is the splendid creature that seizes the bait 
and shakes and worries the line like a bull ter- 
rier, giving blow for blow; this tremendous surge 
down, down, deep into the heart of the bay, with 
irresistible force? Surely this is not the fish, or 
