The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-03
A BIC SALMON GOT
 BY A MERE CHANCE A Woman's Experience With a Light Trout
 Rod. AN OBLIGING STRANGER Quite Disappointed When the Fish Was Allowed
 to Escape.
AN OBLIGING STRANGER

The difficult feat of catching a 27 pound salmon on woman's 10-ounce wire wound cane rod was performed here a few days ago. An angler on one of the upper reaches of the Grand River had allowed his wife to kill salmon on his heavy rod. The fish was strong and willy and had to be played with a long line, as his first rush carried him down the rapids into a second pool 70 feet further on. The mans heart was on the jump all the time the fight lasted, and it was re- lief to him when the fish was gaffed to take over his tackle, doubly pre- cious in that remote place. Ills wife appeared to be quite content af- ter that exciting experience with the sea trout in a httle still water hole not far from the next salmon pool. She was sternly enjoined not to al- low her trout, which rank as vernin in salmon river, to make their way into and disturb the pool. It was not easy with her light apparatus, but she did contrive to bring to land three or four one or two pounders in good style. Then fierce run warned her that she had bigger fish, and she was slightly worried as to whether she could prevent Z It's splashing into the forbidden water.
 However, she put on all the strain she dared whereupon the water bub- bled and heaved and out leaped a huge, glittering creature, which fell back with a resoundlhg crash.
 "Saumon! Saumon!" cried the guide.
 'Nonsense!" shouted the man from his pool there could be no salmon in that dark water. It's big chub or a white trout Keep out of this pool. ? The quick witted guide sprang into the water between the still hole and the sparkling salmon resort to drive the fish upstream, and standing there waist deep waited a chance to use his little net. The woman's reel held the usual 10 feet of light silk line and in- structed by the guide she kept up as steady strain as the light rod would allow
 t.. For some time the fish dashed tc and fro in a space about thirty feet square, Then he went down and sulked until a small stone the guide threw in stirred him up again Ht next Hurried about on top and made a rush down stream full tilt for the partly submerged man.
 The half breed remained perfectly still when he saw the direction the fish was taking, and as it passed &C., tually between his legs he managed to grasp it with knees and hands. The useless little net was discarded, and with one hand under the gills, the other above the tail, he dragged the struggling great fish safely to land The trout rod stood the strain well, excepting at the joints two brass fer rules being split and badly started
 "On the Aaensira River in Norway we had just such another experience, 2 said the jubilant woman at the elub- house that night. The men went out in a boat trolling behind for grilse with two flies to a cast. An old trout rod with sliced joints and a huge Nottingham reel was good enough for poor me, and I was bidden to amuse myself with small. artificial minnow There were trout and cer- tain pretty little white scaled fish to J be had, l was told.
 Tn that country the salmon often take spinning baits, and I was moi without a faint hope that I might by chance get hold of a grilse too. I cer- ! tainly never imagined that I was to