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the whole score for eighteen days, including these 

 specified, being three hundred and sixty salmon 

 weighing thirty-eight hundred and thirty pounds. 



The nearest approach to such a day as this of 

 which I have heard was the bag of Sir Bache 

 Cunard on the Grimersta, in the island of Lewis, 

 off the west coast of Scotland, which was fifty- 

 four fish in one day and thirty-four the day follow- 

 ing ; the average weight, however, was but seven 

 pounds, all with the fly. The largest catch that I 

 have heard of in Britain is that reported by Mr. 

 Senior, of Lord Louth, on the Beauly, where he 

 killed one hundred forty-six fish in five days — 

 whether consecutive days or not is not stated. 



The fish are small on the Godbout, but so is 

 the river, which is very broken, and fished almost, 

 if not entirely, from the shore. 



The Moisie and the Mingan, farther down, are 

 good and the fish are large, averaging, I should 

 say, over twenty-two pounds. The Natashquan 

 is a good-sized stream and full of small fish of 

 from eight to twelve pounds. The Natashquan 

 marks about the eastern limit of the rivers which 

 are at all well known, though a number of those 

 between there and the Strait of Belle Isle have 

 been fished in a superficial way. 



