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THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 



FISHING IN OREGON WATERS 



The First of a Series of Sketches Devoted to the Gentle Art 



of Angling 



BY 

 BLAINE HALLOCK 



Y WAY of preface, let me remark that this 

 series of articles, devoted to the gentle art 

 of fishing, appear here somewhat against 

 my better judgment. They have been 

 penned, not by a scientist learned in all the 

 Latin classifications and anatomical ar- 

 rangements of the many finny creatures, 

 but by a simple fisherman who loves more 

 the sound of gurgling brooks and the sight 

 of open blue sky than the doubtful joy of 

 a knowledge that his Latin classifications are correct or his 

 theory on genus, as disclosed by fin arrangement or scale mark- 

 ings, is faultless. 



These articles will abound in errors in biology. A fish's 

 caudal fin I shall be pleased to call by its unlovely sobriquet, 

 his tail. Perchance I may confuse the salmo irideus with the 

 salmo gairdneri, and the char may even be referred to here, with- 

 out further apology, as a trout; but underneath it all I hope 

 my patient reader may catch some useful hints on angling, or, 

 not being a fisherman himself, may end by holding in higher 

 regard those prevaricating, though harmless, individuals who 

 are so classed. 



One day a friend of mine remarked that since the fishing 

 season had closed he supposed my days off must hang very 

 heavily upon my hands. Somewhat to his surprise I replied 

 that the fishing season never closes. And such is indeed the case, 

 especially here in Oregon. Fish 1 of ten inches or more in length 

 may be taken on rod and line the year round, with no violation 

 of the law, and this without regard to kind. Salmon, trout, char, 



