The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-08-31
COREY, M'BAIN TEST ANOTHER
 ANCLE,FISh|NG
New Philosophy Ent CTS Into Sport Still Sug-
 gest Conservation

u tSfl bfic iiuiiADcA ol AASAA SNf~ gets, but the fun one has in landing them. Some day fishermen will quit asking How many did you get| and ask instead How long did it take to land each one2 We'd rather work all day landing one fish than bring home barrelful that didn't fight us.'
 This sports philosophy of Corey Ford and Alistair MacBain, New York authors who have spent the last two weeks fishing in Alaskan waters, led them yesterday to what may prove an important and defin- ite contribution to the technique of strip fishing.
 We tied our sinkers back with cotton thread so that when the fish struck, the string broke and the fish dropped down" said Ford. And we used light tackle. It gave us all the sport of landing the fish that we could have had using flies In our. opinion, it's a great improve ment on regular strip fishing
 Fish Puts Up Fight
 Clarence Rhodes who guided the fishermen on their yesterdays trip to Tee Harbor,a caught one king on light tackle that fought an hour and ten minutes and then got away
 At the end of the hour it was running out hundred feet" said Ford He put up a tremendous flxllts sTt was &e1th Aib even If We lost the fish-ard there were times when we thought the fish might pun us in. We got to thinking, while we watched that salmon run, that probably there was big dele Ration of his friends waiting few hundred feet down that were shout ing congratulations and wondering where he'd hand those fishermen when he landed them
 Flies, Light Tackle
 !: Ford and MacBain had previously, with great success, nshed kings and echoes with dry flies and light trout tackle. But it didn't work yesterday said Ford. "The. her ring were too big, and no fly could initiate them. We used light steel head tackle, about 51a ounce rod, and 200 feet of flat line with tap cred line for casting which. of course, wasn't necessary for strip fishing. The heaviest fish we got was around IS pounds. We landed six in about five hours
 Ford, Beach Argued
 A discussion arose between MT. Ford and Rex Beach, who also Hives to fish,, as to which were the stronger-the King salmon, or the Tuna, which MT. Beach has fished in Florida waters. MT. Beach favored the latter, which he said was built like the Electra, stream lined, and fought like seven devils." " MT. Ford, however. staunchly de- tended the King, which he declared had the physique of boxer and packed wall0p."
 They never get tired he said. After Rhodes had been following that king around for an hour yes- terday, he decided he probably didn't know he was hooked, and was just running around spawning. They make you feel somehow that you hAxe1lt impressed them much
 MacBaih and Ford spent today fegre9fully preparing for their de- pArtsiie We are going back to the trUutless and 'de-sported East" they seid. tAnd the worst of 1t is. no one will believe us when we tell them what we've seen here.
 Fishermen's Dreams And it isn't believable. If any-i one had told us before we came here that they had seen thousands of trout lying in pool, we'd have said, Isn't it interesting that Alaska has such nice hatcheries. Yet we've seen it on Admiralty Island literally thousands of them. We've fished em-steelhetds-- with half-ounce rod. We've taken chtthroats on dry fly in salt wa ter going with the tide. We've talk eh echoes on dry flies. These are the things you live for-the things fishermen dream about. And some day back there. writing ont of our articles, we're going to stop and say to ourselves, Did 1t really happen of were we dreaming it?' And we'll pinch ourselves = and then we'll come back"
 ' Fish Conservation
 But to make the world Alaska conscious. "It's an assignment
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