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Show IKDIANS USE A . GRABHOOK Have Unique Outfit Which They Uss in Fishing for Salmon Poles Are Twenty Feet Long. The Indians fish for salmon with a "grab-hook," a large Iron hook fas- . tened to a pole by a loose cord three or four feet long. A hole at the blunt end of the hook that slips over the-tip the-tip of the pole keeps it in place until the fish is hooked. Then the hook ls-pullcd ls-pullcd off the pole and the cord gives the fisherman a chance to play his fish If necessary before dragging It ashore, says the Southern Worknian.- The hooks are made by the blacksmith, black-smith, but the poles, about 20 feet in length, the Indians make themselves them-selves of red fir. Taking a rough-piece rough-piece of dry wood of the required length, they patiently work at it with drawshave and knife until It Is the right size and tapering to suit the-workraan. the-workraan. Then it is usually hardened hard-ened in the coals before putting on the-cord, the-cord, which they braid themselves. If a pole breaks, as often happens, hap-pens, the broken parts are lashed together with string, pitch is smeared over and molted by being rubbed with, a hot stone, which makes the pole as-strong as-strong as before. The Indians generally gen-erally fish from the bank or from platforms built over the water. They thrust the long pole out across the-river the-river as far ns they can and let the current carry it down nnd into the bank, trusting to chance and a quick Jerk to hook the fish if they feel one in the water. |