Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-01-27
GREAT ON DOG SALMON.
But When 1t Came to Tyhee the Razor
hack Oyermatched Himself.

But When 1t Came to Tyhee the Razor
back Overmatched Himself.
Fish catching pigs are as common
along the Puget sound waters as king
fishers are on an eastern trout stream.
Why, had an old razorback hog when
| was out there that I'll bet could go
out any day in any of the streams that
| tumble into Puget sound and catch more
Is pound salmon in 20 minutes than
the best fisherman on the whole Jersey
| coast can kill bluefish in a whole day
I owned quite a number of sawmllls
| on the sound, and although there were
| good many crack razorback fish catch
| ers there I stood ready any time to back
mine with my last mill against any
other one, bar none, that could be
| brought on That hog as fisherman
was simply q wonder, and he never
caught anything but salmon. They We're
salmon that probably you and would
not care to eat, for they were trlfle
weak and slightly under the weather
maybe the hookbilf, but more than like
| ly the dog salmon. And hogs are not
| the only four footed fishers for these out
| there either, not by big sight. have
seen, within a distance of less than a
| mile along one of those Puget sound
streams half dozen bears, family or
| two of wildcats, whole colony OF rae
| coons, not few wolves, besides dozen
| or more razorback hogs, to say nothing
of score or SO of eagles. all engaged In
the sport of fishing for dog salmon.
But, speaking of that particular razor
back salmon catcher OF mine, he got SO
expert at landing dog salmon and hook
| bills and humpies and similar kinds
| that he got the big head and thought
he'd try his hand, or rather his snout,
| on a run of fresh tyhees CT chinooks.
| These are the boss salmon, and the nice,
yellow, savory chaps you get IN the cans
they ship from out there. When he Is
feeling good, and that is pretty much
all the time, you might as we'll take q
fall out of your sawmill as fool with g
| tyhee He doesn't think thing Of
weighing so pounds, and he travels IL
professions so big that along in June,
when he is going up the streams to the
spawning beds, you can almost wall
across a stream on the backs
That hog of mine got it into his heao
that he was cut out for better things
than yanlzing weak and tired dog salm
on out of water and that tyhee WERE
about his size | saw him making hi
way one day very leisurely to stream
that ran toward the sound just back O.
my mill, and | thought it was little
queer, for there wash t much IN his Tor
aging line in that direction. was busy
though, and paid no attention to TIT
matter A minute or two later l heart
the hog give loud squeal of distress
and. looking in that direction, l saw
him in the water, struggling to &c
away from something that had hold O
him. l ran to give him some help ant
got there just in time to see the razor
back jerked head first under the waite
and disappear beneath the surface like
stone.
A dead tyhee, maybe a 30 FOUNDER
lay half on the shore and half IN tn
water Marks on it showed that tn
hog must have captured it. But tyhee
weren' t invalid dog salmon, and cou
pie of the captured fish S travelling com
panions, in my opinion, had rushed t
its assistance. Aid was too late an
vengeance took its place. The avengin
tyhees had just reached out and take
Mr. Razorback by the neck and, /
spite of his resistance. had lugged hlr
in and drowned him. He foated dow
half an hour or SO later and was llttl
the worst looking pig have ever seer
II he had been butchered, scaldec
scraped and half dressed, he couldn
have looked more torn up He was th
only razorback | ever knew or heard
that tried to fish for tyhees I was sol
~ to lose him, for ! was counting O
making a good deal-o Of money on hin
backing him in his line against all con
ers, but his ambition was fatal to a
my hopes. New York Sun.