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Tucked away in timbered, fish-oil-soaked sheds on Seattle's waterfront is a super hush-hush business : salmon egg canning. Though even Seattleites know little about it, this small-fry business is of strategic importance to fishermen everywhere...
Thousands of trout fishermen west of the Mississippi use the pink-and-orange-dyed skeins of salmon eggs for bait (TIME, Jan. 31). Last week, this little business was in trouble. Reason : WPB had cut off its supply of glass containers...
...nonce, the six ruggedly individualistic canners had got together to fight the ban. They were led by one of the big gest of them, a squat, merry ex-fishmonger named Pete Sellen (creator of the famed "Pete's trout-ticklers"). Back in 1917, Pete Sellen decided that salmon eggs, which were thrown away by fishermen, had their use. After experimenting with more than 400 solutions, he evolved a secret process of dyeing and preserving them. His brother, who had netted $16,000 cutting the cheeks off waste halibut heads and selling them for 10? apiece, financed him. The industry...
...eating is not the least of steelheads' allure. They look and taste like salmon, are sometimes mistaken for them. But steelheads are definitely trout. Sliced into steaks and fried, or baked whole, their firm, pink flesh has the delicate flavor of fresh-caught rainbow...
...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...