The Oregon Sportsman 



Volume II MAY 1914 Number 5 



THE FISHING FEVER. 



The first symptoms of the fishing fever appear about the 

 end of March or the first week or two in April whenever the 

 clouds clear away for a few days and the sun makes the buds 

 break. The pulse beats faster and the temperature is likely to 

 run higher by the last of April or the first of May. 



This intermittent fever seems to be more virulent in the 

 blood of the light-rod fly artist than in the sluggish bait fisher- 

 man. There is a class of winter fishermen, slow and thick- 

 blooded, who become immune by the constant application of the 

 vile-smelling oil of the salmon egg. But who wants to use a 

 medicine that is worse than the malady? 



As age creeps upon us all, it is not fitting that we speak 

 harshly of him who sits quietly above the still water and drops 

 in his bait contentedly, for in his younger days he may have had 

 innumerable attacks before he got beyond the danger line. Yet 

 in his placidity he may innoculate others with the unquenchable 

 fever. 



Spring comes unfailingly. If one is ever to taste at the 

 fountain of perpetual youth, he will have to forget his business 

 cares and try whipping the clear streams where the rapids flash. 

 He must feel his mind grow keen for the sport. He must feel 

 his heart pound heavier as the line buzzes through the guides. 



SALMON FISHING AT OREGON CITY. 



Each spring the migratory schools of Chinooks enter the 

 Columbia and make for the headwaters to spawn. The Falls of 

 the Willamette at Oregon City are known far and wide in April 

 and May as a rendezvous for anglers. No place in the West is 

 better known for Chinook fishing and no place has a better record 

 of successful sport from the angler's standpoint. 



Fag-e one 



