Excerpt from Lewis and Clarke, Pioneers of the Great American Northwest: Daring and Successful Explorers Discoverers of the Head-Waters of the Columbia River

Net, the scoop or dip net with a long handle, and the hook and line. The first is of different the and depths, and is employed in taking salm on, charr, and trout in the deep inlets among the marshy grounds and at the mouths of deep creeks. The scoop-net is used for small fish in the spring and summer season, and in both kinds the net is formed of silk-grass, or of the bark of white cedar. The gig is employed at all seasons, and for all kinds of fish they can take with it, so, too, is the hook and line, the latter being made of the same material as the net, and their hooks being generally brought by the traders, though, before the whites came, they made their books out of two small pie ces of bone, resembling the European hook, but with a much more acute angle where the two pieces.

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