The Lambertville record., 1897-11-17
GREAT ON DOG SALMON.
hut When 1t Game to ryhee the Razor
back Ovcrmatched Himself.

back Ovcrmatchcd Himself
Fish catching pigs arc as common
along the Puget sound waters as king
fishers are ON an eastern trout stream.
Why | had an old razorbaek hog when
| WAS out there that I'll bet could go
out any day in any of the streams that
tumble into Puget sound aud catch more
10 pound salmon i'll 20 minutes than
the best fisherman ON the whole Jersey
coast can Kill bluedsh in whole day.
| owned quito number of sawmills
ON the sound, and although there wero
Il good many crack razorhael1 fish catch
ers there stood ready any time to back
mine with my last mill against any
other one, bar none, that could DO
brought on. That hog as fisherman
was simply wonder, and he never
caught anything but salmon. They were
salmon that probably you and [ would
not caro- to cat, for they wero II tritlo
weak and Slightly under tho weather.
maybe the hookbill but moro than like
ly tho dog salmon, And hogs aro not
the only four footed fishers for these out
there either not by n big sight. / have
seen, within distance of less than
milo along one of those Puget sound
streams, half II dozen bears, family or
two of wildcats, n whole colony of rae
eoons, not few wolves, besides dozen
or more razorbaclI hogs, to say nothing
of n score or so of eagles, all engaged i'll
the sport of fishing for dog salmon.
But, speaking of that particular razor
back salmon catcher of mine, he got so
expert ut landing dog salmon and hook.
bills and humpies and similar kinds
that ho got tho big head and thought
he'd try his hand, or rather his snout,
on run of fresh tyhees or chinooks
These are the boss salmon. and tho nice,
yellow, sayory chaps you get in the cans
they ship from out there. When ho is
feeling good, and that is pretty much
all tho time, you might as we'll tako IL
fall out of your sawmill as fool with
tyheo llo doesn't think II thing of
weighing 90 pounds. and he travels in
professions SO big that along in Juno,
when he is going up the streams to tho
spawning bods you can almost walk
across II stream on the backs
That hog of mine got it into his head
that ho was cut out for better things
than yanbing weak and tired dog salm-
on out of water and that tyhee wero
about his si2o. | saw him making his
WAY ono day very leisurely To II stream
that ran toward tho sound Just back of
my mill. aud thought it was littlo
queer, for thero wash { much i'll his for
1pIt1 limo 1t,t tl,af Il /
though, and paid no attention to tho
matter a minute or two later | heard
the hog give IL loud squeal of distress,
and, looking III that direction, saw
him III the water struggling to get
away from something that had hold of
hln ran to give him some help and
got thcrn lust III timo To see the razor
back lerkcd head first under tho water
and disappear beneath the surface like u
Stone.
dead tyhec, maybe IL 90 FOUNDER
lay halt ON tho shore and half in tho
water Marks on 1t showed that tho
hog nuSt have captured 1t But tyheos
weren't Invalid dog salmon. and cou-
pie of the captured fish travelling com
panions IN my opinion. had rushed TO
its assistance AID WAS too late and
vengeance took It's place Tho avenRing
tyhees had lust reached out and taken
Mr. kazorback by the neck. aud, in
spite OF his resistance. had lugBcd him
III and drowned him He foated down
half AN hour or SO later and was little
tho worst looking pig | have over seen.
II he had been butehered, sealded,
scrapcd and half dressed. ho couldn't
have looked moro torn up Ho was tho
only razorblck l. ever knew or heard Of
that tried to fish for tyhccs | was sor-
ry to lose him, for | was counting on
making good deal OF money ON him,
backing hlm in his limo against all com.
ers, but his ambition was fatal to all
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