SALMON FISHING 



SALMON fishing has become an expensive 

 luxury of late years not only in Canada, 

 but also in Great Britain, Ireland, and 

 ^^ Norway. Two of the most famous sal- 



mon rivers in Canada, not more than thirty 

 years ago, were leased for one hundred thou- 

 sand dollars each, per year. If the best pools on 

 either of these rivers were offered for sale to-day, 

 in fee simple, they would fetch fifty thousand 

 dollars each, or more, to say nothing of the pres- 

 ent value of the entire river. These pools, of 

 course, represent the very cream of the fishing. 

 On all salmon rivers there are long stretches of 

 almost useless water, on which it hardly pays to 

 spend time in angling. These, even, are leased 

 now-a-days, at good prices, and a few fish are 

 occasionally taken early in the season when the 

 water is high and the fish are running up stream. 

 Such reaches of water cannot, in any sense, be 

 called pools ; they are simply waterways through 

 which the salmon pass in making their way up 

 river, the pools being the natural stopping places 



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