Fish were harvested in different ways on the Skagit River. One I recall from my you ger days was dip netting, Nets were constructed from wood and bone and cedar. There were a series of falls on the Skagit River near Rockport WA. There was a skill in dipping the net into the turbulent water, knowing when you had a fish, feeling the current pulling equally as hard on the net. It was a dangerous way to get salmon,