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impaled by the barb concealed in the gay deceit 

 which had lured him to his doom ? Only the 

 foresight of my half-breed guides in having the 

 canoe ready to receive me at the foot of the 

 pool enabled me to save both fish and tackle, 

 for from the moment that he felt the hook, he 

 never paused in his mad rush for the sea, until 

 he had led us a chase of nearly half a mile. 



There is a limit to everything, however, even 

 to the space that I must occupy in this book, 

 and since salmon fishing is by no means the only 

 sport that awaits the angler in Canadian waters, 

 I am compelled to pass over an intended account 

 of the salmon club of millionaire anglers, having 

 its headquarters on the far-famed Restigouche ; 

 a more lengthy reference to the Cascapedia, in 

 which H. R. H. the Princess Louise is credited 

 with killing a fifty-two pound salmon, and the 

 fishing of a portion of which is leased for $7,500 

 a year ; some notice of the Nepisiguit and other 

 famous salmon rivers of New Brunswick ; and a big 

 bunch of advice to salmon fishermen, or rather to 

 those who ambition to become such, which is per- 

 haps, better, after all, unuttered, since experience 

 in salmon fishing, as in so many other afl^airs of life, 

 is a much more efi^ective teacher than precept. 

 If I were asked what kind of fishing most nearly 



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