Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INDIANS SPEARING SALMON TOAD BROOK POOL, RESTIGOUCHE RIVER does, the pull on the line in playing a fish does not exceed the weight shown by the scale. With sometimes twenty to fifty yards of line underwater the salmon will generally, if not always, get a much greater pull than three pounds, as he has to overcome the friction of the water on the line in addition to that of the bent rod and the resistance of the reel, even when going straight away. More frequently, however, he goes across-stream or in a diagonal direction to its current, which greatly increases the strain on the line. If after going down-stream the fish turns and runs up, " drowning the line," as it is called, he has to pull up against the current the whole weight of the submerged line until the angler can get below him, which is often impracticable. In these cases the tension on the line is very much greater than a straight pull of three pounds would indicate, and a large amount of effort on the part of the salmon is exerted before the result of it is felt on the rod. In towing a boat up-stream with a long line, if it becomes " bellied" by being slack and carried out in the stream by the current, a large amount of power has to be exerted by the horse or man pulling the boat along, before the boat feels it at all, the line having first to overcome the forceexerted against it by the current. So it is with a line of length to which a salmon is attached. Again, when a salmon after a run down or across stream turns, runs up-stream and jumps, often appearing yards above where you think he is, he has to pull out of the water the weight of the line between him and you which is " bellied" by the current and by his course, and the angler, though he have a strong pressure on the fish, may not feel it any stronger w... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.