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PLACES WHERE LORDLY FISH THRIVE Dr. O. S. McKee of Caldwell, O., rugged and alert despite his sixty-six years, has returned from an extensive outing throughout the Northwest, including the Yellowstone River district, the territory drained by the Alimlte River in Oregon and tho spendid fishing section up to 200 miles north of Vancouver. He carried his own equipment, two rods and tackle and a blanket, and made a cou- p siderable part of the trip in a canoe, sleeping out in tho open alone, building his own fires and cooking his own food, which he procured "off the land and waters." He caught 121 rainbow trout out of a stream that emptied into Camel Lake and twenty-four salmon, ranging in weight from ten to twenty-three pounds, in Johnson Sound, north of Vancouver. He covered 550 miles up the Columbia River to the Okannogan Valley and found good trout fishing in the Methon and Twisp rivers, but the best place for trout was in the Snohwinster River, after crossing the Cascade Mountains. A spinner was the most deadly lure for salmon and trout, bat the fly and the lowly worm at times brought plunder to his creel. y I
