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have been bitten, and sometimes badly, by their 

 marine enemies. My Scottish correspondent, be- 

 fore quoted, tells of an old Kelt which had become 

 imprisoned by the falling of the water in a small 

 but deep pool : " Over this fish, for lack of other 

 sport, some members of our party amused them- 

 selves by throwing a fly, and though he was landed 

 as often as three or four times a day, he was quite 

 ready to seize it as frequently as offered. In 

 the Grimersta River, of which I have spoken, the 

 worm was such a deadly bait that some of the 

 anglers agreed not to use it, and a gentleman 

 once fishing there landed with this bait in one 

 hour and a half seven fish, the worm being 

 greedily seized the instant it was in the water. 

 While some of the fish were fresh-run, others by 

 their dark appearance showed they had been away 

 from the sea for some time." I do not know any 

 instances in this country of salmon being taken 

 with bait nor even of it having been tried, though 

 I have no doubt its use would prove successful. 



An English gentleman killed quite a number 

 of salmon some years since at Chain of Rocks on 

 the Restigouche, with a small brass spoon, which 

 he gave when he left to one of his Indians, who 

 showed it to me. 



