Show INDIANS USE A have unique outfit which The in fishing for silmon salmon poles are twenty feet long the indians fish tor for salmon with a grab drab hook book a lurge large iron hook fastened to a pole by a loose cord three or four fe feet et long A hole at the blunt end endom bof the hook book that slips over the tip of the pole keeps lt it in place until the fish Is hool hooked ced then he the hook la Is pulled off the pole and the cord gives the fisherman a chance to play his fish if necessary before drugging dragging it ithome says the southern workman the hooks are made by the black 1 1 smith but the poles about 20 feet lo in length the indians make themselves of red fir taking a rough piece of dry wood of the required i length they patiently work at drawshave and knife until it Is thel the right size and tapering to suit the workman then it Is usually hardened in the coals before putting on the cord which they braid themselves vesi s if a pole breaks as often hap pena the broken parts paris are lashed together with string pit pitch chis Is smeared 1 overland over and melted malted by being rubbed with a hot st stone ne which makes the pole as strong as before the indians gen 1 brally fish from the bank or from platforms platform s built over the water T they b ey thrust the long pole out across the river as far as they can and let the current carry it down and into the bank trusting to chance and a delzi bulck v jerk to hook the fish if they feel one in the water |