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FOREST AND STREAM 
December, 1917 
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ROD AND GUN ON 
AN OREGON RIVER 
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for chinook, ?o we sold to him for several 
days. The next day, October ioth, we 
caught 21 silversides and 8 chinook. On 
October nth I went to Scottsburg to mail 
some letters and killed a buck on the way, 
besides catching seven salmon. October 
I2th we caught 56 salmon; the next day 40; 
the next day 50. Then they began to drop 
off, but we still caught from 15 to 41 a day. 
A number of people were trolling in this 
part of the river. They were mostly camp¬ 
ers who had come in from different parts 
of the country to catch a few salmon to 
smoke or salt for their winter use. 
After the first of November the salmon 
bit better. During the first week we 
caught from 20 to 40 per day. Then we 
had some rain, the river began to rise. 
During the first two days of the rise we 
caught 42 and 44 respectively. The third 
day the river was too high for good fish¬ 
ing and we caught only 25. The next day 
the river had fallen and we made our big¬ 
gest catch—79 salmon. For the next ten 
days we caught from 44 to 75 a day. The 
price had raised and we were now getting 
four cents a pound for all our salmon. 
HE weather got cold 
and everything would 
be white with frost of a 
morning. It was pretty 
hard on the fishermen. 
The fish bit fine, but we 
could only catch two or 
three before our hands 
would get so cold, that 
we would have to go 
ashore and run around 
awhile to get warm. 
Some fishermen made 
stoves out of 5-gallon oil cans, which they 
carried along to warm their hands by. 
It was so cold that we would have to 
keep moving our lines through the guides 
on the rods or they would freeze fast. We 
would have to take a nail and punch the 
ice out of the line guides every few min¬ 
utes or they too would freeze fast and 
there was danger of the line breaking. We 
would have made some large catches dur¬ 
ing this cold weather, if it hadn’t been so 
uncomfortable fishing. 
In this particular the other fishermen 
had the advantage of us. They used large 
hand lines to troll with instead of rods 
and reels. Ordinarily, however, I do not 
think much of the tackle they used. Their 
lines were almost as big as a rope and 
they tied on their spoons without a leader. 
Tt’s a wonder they ever catch anything. 
As a matter of fact, they do not catch 
nearly as many as they would if they used 
light tackle. They seldom caught over 8 
or 10 a day. Their hooks as well as their 
lines were too large. The striking salmon 
often failed to swallow them, but when 
they did it was all off with the salmon, 
which was brought in hand over hand and 
into the boat almost before he knew what 
had happened. Some of the fishermen 
made fun of our tackle at first, but they 
soon changed their minds. I think most 
of them will be supplied with tackle simi¬ 
lar to ours next season. 
