
Salmon Fishing on Commencement Bay 
BY ELLA LILLIES 
Lovers 6f real fishing who have never visited 
this part of the country have missed half their 
lives. Tacoma, Wash., is situated on the finest 
harbor in the world, at the head of ocean naviga- 
tion on Puget Sound. I am only one woman 
out of many who enjoy fishing, and eagerly look 
forward to the time when the trout season opens, 
that I may cast for the fine fish that bounce like 
a rubber ball, so firm they are, when taken from 
the ice-cold streams that empty into the bay. 
Now, to catch one of those spotted, gamy 
tyhee salmon: First, you want a linen line, of 
good size and about too feet long. On the end 
of this place a swivel and fasten a good linen 
line twelve or fifteen feet long and smaller than 
the other with a 
sixteen or twenty- 
ounce sinker; in 
this smaller, or 
leader line, place 
one or two swivels, 
as they keep the 
line from kinking; 
then on the end 
of this leader line 
put another 
swivel, with a snap 
fastener. Now 
take a swivel and 
to it fasten a wire 
leader three feet 
long and with a 
swivel on the other 
end, and to this 
last swivel fasten 
your salmon hook. 
Several of these 
wire leaders may 
be fixed and bait- 
ed, as it saves so 
much time while 
trolling, for when 
a tyhee strikes 
your bait and you 
do not hook him, 
you have to put 
out a fresh her- 

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ring, as they will not strike at a ragged herring. 
By having several hooks baited, you can unsnap 
and put on a baited hook in only a few seconds. 
During the herring run these are the only 
bait a tyhee will take, and with a herring rake 
you cah secure herring by the hundred, and the 
salmon feed right where the herring are the 
thickest. 
Now, to bait your hook: Takea wire needle 
six or seven inches long, insert at the vent of the 
herring and out of its mouth, and in the hook of 
this needle catch the ring of the swivel on your 
wire leader and pull it through the herring. 
Snap on your hook so that the bend is next to 
the herring’s tail. Then with a thread sew the 
herring’s mouth up neatly and securely; this 
makes him appear like a live one in the water. 
Now your leader is baited, so snap it on your 
line, see that rod 
and reel are all 
right and you are 
ready. Be sure 
your gaff hook 
and salmon club 
are in your boat. 
Pull out past 
the sea weeds, 
throw out your 
herring and pull 
along until you 
have let out about 
sixty or seventy 
feet of line. Row 
on slowly and 
when _ anything 
jerks that line it’s 
sure a salmon. 
When it does, slide 
in your oars, give 
a little jerk to the 
rod, and from the 
end of your boat 
you can, play your 
fish. Never give 
him slack line or 
he’s gone, and 
don’t hurry, for he 
may come up to 
the side of your 
boat and quicker 

