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FOREST AND STREAM 
January, 1920 
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FLY-FISHING FOR THE 
SEA POLLOCK 
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shrimp half chewed that flashed brightly. 
No need to hook him, he had hooked 
himself, and that heavy salmon rod bent 
and shivered at the shock, while the reel 
ran out a full fifty yards in that first 
rush. The battle was on. 
I heard once of a salmon fisherman 
who, having prepared to cast the fly for 
this silver warrior, got a rise, saw the 
huge fish come lunging at his lure, only 
to miss and the fisherman reeled in, went 
home thanking God he had not hooked 
the fierce game. There were times when 
I looked at my fifty-dollar salmon rod 
and sympathized with that fisherman. 
I’d a good deal rather break an arm than 
break that rod. There were times when 
I vaguely wondered whether I ought not 
cut the line and try some other and less- 
prized tackle. Still, I hung on, because 
there seemed nothing else to do. How 
long we fought there I do not know, 
but at last he went away with my leader, 
fly and a yard or so of line and left us 
there drifting in the fog wreaths and 
wondering which way our powerboat lay. 
Then I got an idea. 
Sea water plays tricks with enamelled 
silk lines, so I reeled on a heavy cutty- 
hunk linen bass line. Also gut will bear 
watching after it has been thoroughly 
soaked in the briny, so I put on a limp 
copper leader and looped on the fly. We 
made up tide again with the power boat, 
and waited to sight once more the leaping 
school. 
Suddenly we were in the midst of them 
again, and I sent the fly soaring as far 
as I could cast. This time there was no 
delay. Out there in the leaping host a 
heavy fish took the lure, and I struck 
strongly, by instinct. 
There was no way of telling what hap- 
pened at first, for fish were leaping every- 
where, but as we drifted down tide, and 
out of the school, I could see my catch — 
a magnificent fish of twenty odd pounds. 
This time I forgot all care of tackle and 
put in all the rod and line would stand. 
Not soon shall I forget that first pol- 
lock. He put up as game a fight as any 
bass or salmon I ever hooked. But he 
was caught deep down in the throat and 
he came in at last, pulling away from 
me mightily, to he lifted from the shining 
water into the boat — our first pollock 
taken on a fly! 
We had many more, but strangely few 
strikes considering the hordes of fish we 
cast among. Once in a while we hooked 
one foul. But right there I learned an- 
other thing about the pollock. He is as 
hard to lure, even in his schooling mad- 
ness, as is the salmon in the narrow pools 
of some inland stream. Unless you have 
a different side of him than we got that 
day, two or three fish a day will be a 
good bag taken on the fly. But, here is 
the point: three fish taken that way are 
finer sport than a boatload taken by gig 
or devil or net. He is the gray bass of 
the ocean, is the sea pollock, and he is 
worthy of your study and work and lore. 
You will need all these expedients when 
you grapple with this warrior. 
