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whether I got out both of them, but I immediately discarded my 

 second fly, and with one fly (of any colour) pulled in trout after 

 trout, one every cast, for a couple of hours, till I had filled up 

 half my canoe. They were all from two to six pounds weight. 

 The curious thing was, the more splashing a fish made when being 

 landed, the more the others used to collect and congregate round 

 the place, and immediately when your fly again touched the 

 water, there was a general " rush " for it. 



I never before saw such fishing, but it was probably the 

 first time almost that the upper Nepisiquit had ever been fished 

 with a rod. 



Lower down the same river, below the " Falls," which are 

 30 feet high, clear fall, besides the rapid above — and which 

 salmon cannot pass — the salmon fishing is excellent, and I have 

 got as many as seven or eight salmon in a morning before breakfast. 

 Of course we generally stopped for a day or two when there 

 was particularly good fishing, but during the trip some of our 

 rods were always kept ready fixed along the gunwale of the 

 canoe, ready for a cast in any likely pool, and we lived largely on 

 these excellent trout which you never get tired of, as you very 

 soon do of salmon, if you get it every meal. 



I will give a few short extracts from one of my old note 

 books (which I was fortunate enough to find) written during a 

 trip up the Tobique River across the Watershed (a 3 mile 

 portage) and down the Nepisiquit in 18G3. The party consisted 

 of the " Sagum, " " Loks " and myself and the faithful Gabe — 

 and we had a party of Tobique Indians (Milicetes) with their 

 canoes to take us up the Tobique. And a party of Micmac 

 Indians, with their canoes, came up the Nepisiquit to meet us at 

 the " portage " and take us down the Nepisiquit to the Gulf of 

 St. Lawrence. 



"Monday, 3rd August. — Camp 2 miles above the Tobique 

 " Rapids. Started before 5 a.m. Reached Hutchison's (the 

 " furthest outlying settlement or farm) at 11 a.m. The Sagum 

 " received and answered the usual address — we wrote and 

 " despatched letters, etc., and then poled on, and camped about 

 " 24 miles up at the mouth of the Wampskeyhegan River, where 

 " I caught a good supply of trout. An awfully hot day. Black- 

 " flies and mosquitoes very bad in the evening, but a cool night." 

 " Tuesday, J/.th August. — Started rather late and proceeded 

 " up about 10 miles. Stopped for lunch and caught many trout, 

 " and a good many more after lunch on the way up, chiefly at 

 " Banks Bradoon " and the ' Oxbow.' Camped at ' Deep 

 " Hole,' 24 miles up, where I caught some more trout. Saw 

 " two salmon rise, but could not raise one myself. The Indians 

 " say salmon do not take fly on the Tobique. (They spear 



