SPORT FISHING 
But many fishermen don’t go after 
salmon for food. All they want is the 
fun of catching it and letting other people 
know that they caught it. Such sport 
fishermen look down upon spearing and 
upon net and pot-hole fishing. They say 
none of these give the fish a chance to 
get away. 
In spearing, a man simply finds a 
place where there are many salmon, and 
thrusts his spear into the water. Up 
comes the spear with a fish wriggling on 
the end of it. This is the way the Indi¬ 
ans have fished for hundreds of years. 
In pot-hole fishing, the man stands 
near a water fall where the salmon are 
leaping upward. Sometimes when a 
salmon cannot make the full jump, it 
falls backward, and lands in a deep hole 
full of water, near the fall. The fisher¬ 
man just reaches down and lifts the fish 
from the pot-hole. Many bears catch 
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