Favorite Fish and Fishing 



to sea after the spawning season, like its 

 prototype, is another puzzh'ng proposition. 

 It has been argued by some that the win- 

 ninish is the original, or typical species, and 

 that the anadromous salmon is descended 

 from individuals that took on the seafaring 

 habit. But such speculative theories can 

 never be proven. 

 A Virgin Trout Twenty years ago. Dr. W. W. Dawson, 

 of Cincinnati — then president of the Amer- 

 ican Medical Association — and myself were 

 guests of Surgeon-General Baxter, U.S.A., 

 at his fishing lodge near Metapedia, on 

 the Restigouche River, New Brunswick. 

 Twenty years ago ! How time flies ! Since 

 then my dear friends. Doctors Dawson and 

 Baxter, have both crossed the silent river, 

 though it seems but a few weeks since we 

 were casting our lines in the pleasant places 

 on the famous Restigouche. Indeed, that 

 pleasant summer seems as but yesterday, 

 when Mrs. Baxter killed with her own rod 

 six salmon, running from twenty to thirty 

 pounds, and was not more than thirty min- 

 utes in bringing any of them to gaff. 

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