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gether with two other friends on the Grand 

 Cascapedia River in July, 1891. 



One day, Mr. J was fishing in the famous 



pool known as " Salmon Hole." (This is where 

 the late R. G. Dunn killed the record fish some 

 years ago, which weighed fifty-four pounds.) A 

 salmon rose close to his fly, but not at it. The 

 fish kept coming to the surface at intervals of from 

 about a half to three-quarters of an hour. He 

 spent the afternoon fishing for that salmon, and 

 was rewarded at the end of four hours, when the 

 fish rose to his fly, and he succeeded in killing it. 

 The fish weighed twenty-five and one-half pounds, 

 and put up a splendid fight, and this was after- 

 wards looked upon as a piece of fine work by 

 those who knew of it. There are not many an- 

 glers who have patience enough to spend so much 

 time over a salmon under such circumstances. 



The writer has fished for trout from boyhood 

 upwards; but salmon fishing came later in life. 

 He has cast the fly on some of the best rivers in 

 Canada and Scotland, and has passed many seasons 

 of late years on the Penobscot River in Maine, 

 with some successes and many failures. With the 

 exception of the St. Croix, the Penobscot is about 

 the only river in New England from which salmon 

 are taken with a fly ; but of late years it has almost 



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