FOREST, LAKE, AND RIVER 



James J. Hill, the St. Paul railway magnate, for 

 $3,000 a year. 



The better part of the pools in the Godbout are 

 private property, and in four weeks a party of 

 anglers killed five hundred and nine fish in them. 

 One angler is known to have killed over forty 

 salmon in one day in this river, though an average 

 of one or two per day satisfies most anglers, and 

 three, four, and five per day is considered excellent 

 fishing. Sometimes there are several blank days in 

 succession, and anglers have been known to whip 

 the water faithfully for ten days or even a fortnight 

 without securing a single fish ; and this in rivers 

 like the Restigouche or the Ste. Marguerite, 

 known to abound in salmon. Three fish, weigh- 

 ing respectively, thirteen, fifteen, and seventeen 

 pounds, killed one morning before breakfast on 

 the Trinity River, north of the Gulf, in the 

 summer of 1897, ^^^ ^ memory of my most 

 enjoyable hour and three-quarters of sport with 

 rod and line, in a good many years of angling. 

 What burnished silver could flash and dazzle in 

 the sunlight with the opalescent hues of the 

 smallest of the trio, fresh from the sea, and what 

 racehorse ever more valiantly struggled to pass 

 the winning post than this salmon did to return 

 to his salt-water home, when finding himself 



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