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to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. 
©. For Your Boat An Enthusiastic Westerner 
Registers a Kick 
—And Tells Us of the Charms 
of the Pacific 
: AS Weer not a little more Northwestern 
stuff in your issues? And more 
real trout-fishing and wilderness trips? 
Of course your Easterner can’t get any 
fishing except the back-yard variety 
when he’s at home, but now thousands 
of them come west as auto tourists, 
and what they don’t know about this 
country would fill volumes. More 
western stories or articles descriptive 
of this country would give them an 
idea of what to expect. Also, your 
Easterner wants to be regaled with 
stories of fishing different from that he 
gets at home. When did I last see 
an article or story of the Puget Sound 
country in an eastern sporting maga- 
zine? I can’t remember. 
I am a Seattle angler. This city has 
an enthusiastic angling fraternity and 
several clubs, but I am not going to 
talk about these matters, I am going 
to talk about the fishing we have here 
as compared with the bass and pike 
stuff I’ve got to read about in your 
numbers. 
We have mountains—mountains with 
“hair on their chests,” to use the ex- 
pression, on all sides of us. Sharp 
jagged pinnacles of rock lifting thou- 
sands of feet into bracing air you can’t 
duplicate outside the Puget Sound 
country. Perpetual snow. Lots of 
valleys and in every valley a river, 
and every river full of fish. Some of 
’em close to town—in these the fish are 
wise; others you have to hike a little 
to reach—in these the fish are foolish 
but fighters. And these fish are trout, 
not bass, catfish, perch, and other 
sundry warm water pond fish. We 
have these latter, and we have your 
transplanted eastern brook trout, and 
I guess it will raise an argument, but 
we don’t find your bass or your eastern 
brook trout game here. The eastern 
brook trout puts up a little fight, but 
he doesn’t leap, and he gives in pretty 
easily. We catch them in jewels of 
mountain lakes, water clear as crystal 
and ice-cold, pretty pink spotted trout 
and all sizes—I am not kidding when 
I say that these transplanted fish are 
caught up to twelve pounds here and 
eight pounders cause no excitement. 
The bass, at least the large mouth, af- 
ford a little fun in casting, but outside 
of hitting the plug or lure with quite a 
bit of ostentation he comes in like a 
chunk of wood. Catch ’em any way 
you like, fly-rod and light tackle or 
short casting rod and wooden lure— 
all the same—come in like suckers. 
Slope Country 
People seem to think that the Rogue 
River in Oregon is the only western 
stream where the steelhead trout is 
caught. Puget Sound rivers swarm 
with ’em in the winter and early 
spring, and with the kind of winter 
weather we have here it’s a real treat 
to go out after ’em, and fifteen and 
twenty pounders are common. Straight 
goods, we catch these fish on five and 
six ounce rods, which is a real stunt. 
Lakes? Every cup-shaped depression 
in the country has one—in short, every 
place where a lake could be has got a 
lake where that place is. All kinds of 
lakes, mud lakes, clear gravel-bottomed 
lakes, lakes in the lowland sweltering 
in the summer heat, lakes in the moun- 
tains bordered with majestic firs and 
austre granite peaks. In these lakes 
eastern bullheads, perch, crappie, bass 
or trout as the nature of the lake suits 
the variety of fish. But in the high 
country only trout. 
Week end trips? From Seattle you 
can take a different one every week- 
end, and fish a different place, get good 
fishing, and not exhaust the places 
within a radius of a hundred miles 
from here in several years—by “ex- 
haust” I mean fish the same place twice 
—the assumption that one might pos- 
sibly be bored to fish in the same place 
twice of course being rather far- 
fetched. 
And Puget Sound itself. The most 
beautiful arm of the sea in the world, 
I consider it. Looks like a big moun- 
tain lake, but it is salt to the taste. 
Inlets radiate from its principal chan- 
nels for many miles, each of them a 
new delight to explore, each a paradise 
for fishermen. Salmon? They’re not 
all in the cans yet, and the visiting 
auto-tourist can prove that for himself 
when he comes here, for we will tell 
him where and how. We catch ’em on 
light tackle and they don’t make a 
‘gamer fish than the salmon, when 
fresh-run from the ocean. No, sir. 
And trout? You wouldn’t believe 
there would be fresh-water trout in 
the salt water. But there are, right 
here in Puget Sound, and lots of ’em. 
They will take the fly, they will take 
the spoon and they will take the lowly 
worm. And they wax great in the 
matter of size. 
If the Easterner wants salt water 
fishing he can get all he wants right 
here. He can just jump into a row- 
boat, drop anchor anywhere in the 
Sound, and fish for-and catch any num- 
It will identify you. 
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