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succession, but vault several feet into the air. This 

 is well calculated to bring the angler's heart up into 

 his mouth, and no fisherman who has had thirty 

 pounds of Sahno salar leap into the air at the end 

 of his line in the endeavor to get free, is ever likely 

 to forget the experience. 



Large prices are paid for the leases of some 

 of the Canadian salmon rivers. Mr. Ivers W. 

 Adams of Boston purchased the riparian rights 

 of the famous Moisie River, early in 1901, for 

 $30,000, and then, to make sure that the Govern- 

 ment would not interfere with him in the exercise 

 of those rights, made an arrangement to pay it 

 $2,500 a year for the rental of its own alleged 

 rights, without prejudice to his own. The Moisie 

 is a broad, deep river, producing very large salmon, 

 and affording fishing for several rods. Fish of 

 over forty pounds in weight have been taken out 

 of it, and despite the large amount of netting done 

 in its estuary, as many as three to four hundred 

 fish have been taken from its waters in one season, 

 by rod and line, of an average weight of eighteen 

 to twenty pounds. 



In the St. John River of the north shore, one 

 hundred and forty-eight salmon have been taken 

 by anglers in less than a month. The rod and 

 line fishing of this stream is now leased to Mr. 



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