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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Aug. 4, 1906. 
Notes on Salmon in British Columbia. 
The principal varieties of salmon in our 
waters, from a rod fisherman's point of view,, 
are the cohoe and so-called spring salmon. I he 
letter fish is known by a number of names ac¬ 
cording o tbe locality in which it is caught: 
for instance, at Campbell River it is always 
called the tyee, at other places it goes by the 
name of silver and king salmon lhe sockeye 
salmon is the great cannery fish and se dom 
takes a bait freely. . 
The time at which the fish run varies a great 
deal according to the locality, but with the ex¬ 
ception of a month or two m the year, there is 
always some place on the coast where the 
spring salmon can be caught with a rod. i he 
best fish are caught when the herring run is on. 
This is from December to April. At this time 
of year you must troll with a small herring fitted 
upon a flight of hooks, so that it will spin well; 
you require to use a lead according to the depth 
of water and length of line you have out so 
that you can fish as near the bottom as possible, 
as the biggest fish always lie deep. For spring 
salmon fishing the neighborhood of Port Simp¬ 
son cannot be beaten; there the fish are very 
plentiful and run to a great size. As this is 
too far away for the average man, I would sug¬ 
gest going to Pender Harbor, some fifty miles 
up the coast from Vancouver, or Barclay 
Sound on Vancouver Island. Even in Van¬ 
couver Harbor itself a few fish can nearly al¬ 
ways be got by a man who will persevere. 
This spring, though the run has been ex¬ 
tremely small and the number of people who 
have fished has been likewise, I can account for 
at least fifty good fish that have been taken in 
the last mentioned place. 
■ While, in my opinion, tbe spring fishing is the 
most sporting, there is no doubt that the great¬ 
est number of fish are taken in the summer and 
fall months. About the beginning of July tbe 
cohoes begin to run at Campbell River and all 
other points north of this place. The cohoe is 
a small fish, seldom going above 10 pounds; 
he is, however, a very game little fish 
and, if you use a light rod and tackle to 
match, will give any amount of sport. This 
fish will also, under favorable conditions of 
water, tide and weather, take the fly. A very 
ordinary bag of these fish at Campbell River 
would be twenty fish a day, and bags of over 
a hundred are frequently taken. At the begin¬ 
ning of August the tyee salmon come and then 
is tbe time you want your strong tackle and 
long line. The record fish at Campbell River, 
taken with a rod, is 72 pounds; the average 
weight would be 45 pounds. As many as nine* 
fish have been caught in a day, and as it gen¬ 
erally takes from twenty minutes to an hour and 
a half to land an average sized fish, the man 
who did this could not have lost much time. I 
know of a 50-pound fish that was hooked foul 
that took close on to five hours to kill. 
From Campbell River the run of fish gets 
later all the way down to Vancouver, where the 
cohoes do not begin to run till tbe end of 
August, and the second run of spring salmon 
well on toward October. 
Apart from the spring fishing and the small 
amount of fly-fishing done for cohoes, the prin¬ 
cipal bait used is the spoon. As far as I know, 
nobody ever tried the spring salmon with a fly, 
though I believe it is well worth attempting at 
Campbell River. 
It would be impossible to give the names of 
the various places for fishing, as nearly every 
part of the coast is good at some season of the 
year, with the exception of the months of April, 
May and June, when there is splendid trout 
fishing to be had instead. A. B. W. 
Fishing in Colorado. 
Mr. C. E. Yon km an, one of Denver’s star 
fishermen, Ed. Warren and Jas. Bradley, went to 
Hartsel on the south fork of the Platte River, 
this week fishing, and caught eighteen fish, all 
rainbow trout but two, which were eastern brook 
and weighed more than a pound a piece. The 
fish dressed, pulled the scales down to 27 pounds, 
and were from eight to twenty-one inches long. 
They were a pretty sight, strung out on a long 
block of ice in Brown and Beck’s window, and 
many men, weary with the cares of office and 
the tiresome details of business stopped to look 
at the frozen trout—mementoes of a day’s sport 
with rod and reel, and gave a sigh of regret for 
what “might have been.” Mr. Yonkman’s fame 
is not confined to angling; he is one of the most 
noted trapshooters in the West. 
The Elks went fishing in carloads last Friday, 
with rod and reel, and other paraphernalia. Some 
went up the Platte, others took the iron trails 
that are longer and lead to the far away Gunni¬ 
son and other public streams. All had good 
luck and pronounced the scenery in Colorado the 
most beautiful in the world. S. E. Land, super¬ 
intendent of the Gunnison fish hatchery, who 
was in Denver this week, states that there are 
more trout in the Gunnison River and its tribu¬ 
taries than ever before, and that thousands of 
them are being caught every day by anglers. The 
sport is pronounced excellent in the Gunnison 
section as well as along the Eagle and Frying 
Pan, and also the Platte in Platte canon. Supt. 
Land has just returned from Emerald Lakes near 
Durango, where he has been taking native trout 
spawn. In nine days he collected 4,500,000 eggs. 
This enormous number is sufficient to stock the 
State hatcheries at Denver, Durango, Gunnison 
and Emerald Lakes. The cost to the State of 
collecting this amount of eggs was only $225, 
which is remarkably low. The actual market 
value of these eggs is $2,271. The loss from the 
time of taking until placed in the hatcheries, in 
transporting, etc., was onlv one per cent. Of the 
4,500,000 eggs, Denver gets 1,350,000, Gunnison 
640,000, Durango 2,000,000 and Emerald Lakes 
500,000. There were taken from the Gunnison 
River this season, 1,250,000 rainbow trout eggs, 
half of which will go to the Denver hatCnery 
and the other half to Gunnison. 
A Social TraMp. 
Denver, Colo., July 25. 
Montana Fishing Licenses. 
Montana requires a license for fishing, the 
resident paying $1 and the non-resident $10 for 
permission to fish and to shoot birds, br $25 
to fish and to kill birds and big gamei Dr. 
James A. Henshall sends this account (from the 
Butte Miner of July 19) of how the law Works: 
“Fishermen must show their licenses, ahd any 
one failing to produce tbe necessary permit from 
the State entitling him to whip the swiftly 
swirling pools for the festive fish is in danger 
of arrest. 
“Such is the ultimatum of Deputy Game 
Warden Henry Avarre, of this city. Warden 
Avarre is a zealous officer, and he proposes to 
see that the statutes governing the game of 
Montana are carried out to the letter. Every 
Sunday morning Warden Avarre can be seen 
boarding some train bound for the fishing 
grounds in the vicinity of Butte. He cfin also 
be seen aboard the train on its return trijp. Be¬ 
ginning at one end of the train the officer care¬ 
fully makes his way through the coaches, re¬ 
quiring each fisherman or fisherwoman to pro¬ 
duce the license. 
“Those who fail to show the license, declar¬ 
ing they forgot to bring it with them, are re¬ 
quired to give their names and addresses to the 
officer, and he then ascertains whether or not 
he has been told the truth. From the records 
on file with the State game warden, Mr. Avarre 
stated that arrest would probably follow in the 
event of his having been imposed upon. 
Warden Avarre’s strict attention to the proper 
observance of the game laws by sportsmen in 
this city as well as elsewhere, is calling forth 
much commendatory attention. Heretofore 
there has been a disposition generally to slight 
the game laws, and there has been but little at- 
COLORAPQ RAINBOW TROUT TAKEN BY MR. C. E. YONKMAN. 
