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Never have I read such a funny story, and I've fished for steelhead (and caught a few) in Oregon and Northern California. I have yet to see anyone using "walnut-sized gobs of goof" for bait and a "fetid turkish towel for wiping hands after fixing the bait." Sounds" too much like cleaning a stopped sewer...
...West Coast discovered this mid winter sport only 15 years ago. Their steelheaders' tackle was homemade -from coffee cans and bicycle baskets. Now they use 15-ox. rods & reels with jewel bearings. Equipment includes cans of "goof" (salmon eggs) for bait, a spool of red thread (to tie walnut-sized gobs of goof on the hook), a whiskey bottle and a "gob rag" - a fetid turkish towel for wiping hands after fixing the bait...
...fish are spawned in fresh water, head to sea in their second spring. Grown sometimes to 15 lb., they return to spawn in their fourth winter. Ideal fishing areas are shallow stretches of slow-moving water, where the bait drifts slowly over sandy bottoms. Best fishing is in freezing weather...
Fish & Foul. Such were the churning waters from which the U.S. State Department was trying to pull an acceptable fish. But much of the Department's energy was spent in squabbling over what sort of fish it wanted and what to use for bait. Caught unawares and still in a stew, the Department showed clearly that it had no unified policy, that it was hardly more than a maze of corridors full of warring tribes. Washington newsmen heard that the Department looked to the PIR to set matters aright; that the PIR was nothing but a Soviet tool...
Rats! In St. Louis, William O. Buettner of the National Pest Control Association revealed the best way to catch rats: bait the trap with porterhouse steak...