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almost anything they saw. One of these ardent anglers told us 

 a forty-pound Chinook took hold of his tackle and in trying to 

 save his pole he was carried over the bar and had to swim back 

 empty handed. 



The Salmon Club of Oregon was established to encourage 

 the catching of salmon on light tackle instead of using a pole 

 as strong as a baseball bat, or a line that would hold an ordinary 

 gasoline tug. Why not encourage some of our enthusiastic 

 anglers to try light tackle on one of these forty-pound Chinooks 

 out in salt water? They are a little more lively there than at 

 Oregon City. The rollers might be a little bothersome, but we 

 guarantee the fish will give fight enough to keep a member of 

 the Salmon Club from getting seasick. We recommend a special 

 large button made of something more precious than gold to the 

 angler who can land a forty or fifty-pound spring Chinook off 

 the Columbia bar on the light tackle subscribed by the club. 

 The ocean off the Columbia bar is full of Chinooks in April and 

 May. Tuna fishing in southern California waters between Cata- 

 lina and San Clemente is outclassed and angling for tarpon in 

 the Florida waters is a back number. Let's bring out some of 

 the eastern anglers who can afford to go across the continent 

 to test their tackle and give them the try of their lives off the 

 Columbia bar. 



MINNESOTA FOLLOWS OREGON'S PLAN. 



The Minnesota Game and Fish Commission, upon the initia- 

 tive of its virile executive agent, Carlos Avery, has inaugurated 

 a new policy for the protection of game and fish in that state, 

 the policy being that educating the people at large will do as 

 much, if not more, good than apprehending and punishing. In 

 other words, educating the people to the value of game and fish 

 and the necessity of obeying the laws for their protection and 

 propagation, will prove far more beneficial than prosecutions 

 for violations of these same laws. In furtherance of this plan 

 the Minnesota Game and Fish Commission will publish monthly 

 an official bulletin entitled "Fins, Feathers and Fur," in which 

 every subject in which the commission is interested will be 

 treated. — American Field. 



