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be a fair average. A couple of fine pools, 
sixty miles up river, belonging to Mr. Rogers, 
had for three rods their usual 150 salmon. I 
see the Restigouche Salmon Club limited the 
daily score per rod to eight fish, but, of course, 
they cannot limit the riparian owner; the 
Legislature can only do so on the release of the 
rivers. 
The Upsilquitch river, another branch of the 
Restigouche, somewhat later than the main 
stream for running fish, which are also smaller 
- in size, fished well in July, turning out 150 
fish to three or four rods. The Cascapedia 
anglers had fairly good sport, lessees having 
purchased the use of the nets at or in its 
estuary; in other words, paying the netters to 
allow the fish to come up. 1 have heard the 
limit was forty fish to a rod, quite sufficient to 
satisfy any true sportsman. I did hear that 
one fish of 41% tb. was killed there. 
Fair fishing is also reported from the Gaspe 
rivers, also from the Nepsiguit. No reports 
from Miramichie, except a fair catch of a late 
run of grilse. Trout fishing, with moose, cari- 
boo and bear are now the order of the day. Only 
a few, however, of this class of sportsmen fre- 
quent the Restigouche, as both lessees and 
riparians claim the trout as well as the salmon, 
and don’t care to have them disturbed. 
There are still a couple of openings for good 
fair salmon pools, on the main and Metapedia 
rivers, for lease or purchase, but they are held 
at pretty stiff figures. 
I saw where an angler, on the River Bann 
(Irish), took two and a half hours to kill a 31 tb. 
fish. It seems to me the angler would have to 
adjourn for refreshment before hooking an- 
other. I have never yet taken twenty minutes 
to land any fish when fairly hooked, and in 
my thirty years with the rod have killed five of 
36 tb. and two of over 38 tbh., and assisted 
once to land a 46 tb. fish foul hooked; this fish 
took us one hour and forty-five minutes to 
land. I once fished on our river with a lady, 
who hooked a 27 tb. male fish, through the 
dorsal fin, and it took us over a mile down 
stream, but she killed him in forty-five min- 
utes. Of course we were in a canoe, from 
which all fishing is done here; few fish could 
be either hooked or landed from the bank on 
our Canadian rivers, 
The hatchery here turned into the rivers 
this spring some 2,500,000 Atlantic salmon fry, 
many of them being liberated seventy and 
eighty miles above tide water. It also scnt to 
The American Angler 
other hatcheries 5,000,000 of eyed ova, and our 
river is just now swarming with schools of the 
young fifteen months smolts on their voyage 
to the salt water. The commercial net catch 
in the four counties, bordering on the Bay 
Chaleur, will give about the usual quantity, 
1,000,000 th. worth about $100,000, as no new 
netting stations are permitted, hence the stock 
in the river being better protected will no doubt 
increase yearly. Joun Mowat. 

Chumming for Tarpon. 
It is the practice with all persistent and in- 
dustrious anglers to ground bait waters where 
certain species of fish are known to be, but 
are wide-ranging in their habits. We all know 
the efficacy of chumming for bluefish and 
others of the migratory kind, and we have 
tested personally the value of a ‘‘slick” of 
crude menhaden oil when it is cast upon tide 
waters. Ground baiting is nearly always es- 
sential to success when the fish are scarce and 
their feeding grounds are unknown to the 
angler; this is particularly the case with the 
lake trout living in the deep waters of the in- 
terior, and ‘baiting a buoy” is, in many 
places, the only sure method of alluring them. 
Knowing this to be so with the lake trout, we 
have found it also essential in making a good 
score of pike, pike-perch, andother but smaller 
fish. Whenever we go into camp at a spot 
where fish are not sufficiently numerous to en- 
sure a constant supply for the table, a near by 
bailed buoy is with us a permanent feature, and 
it always yields bounteously, 
In our recent visit to the Gulf. coast below 
Punta Rassa, Fla., our sympathies were ex- 
cited in behalf of the patient and untiring tar- 
pon anglers to whom ‘‘a draw” might come 
once a day or once a week, as the case might 
be, and we thought that some device could be 
resorted to by which more certain results 
would ensue, and we naturally selected ground 
baiting or persistent chumming as being pos- 
sibly the solution of the problem. To the 
former very serious objections arise, the main 
and insuperable one being the difficulty in get- 
ting and keeping the cut bait on the bottom, 
owing to the strong tideways sweeping it on 
and upward, and the voracious foraging habits 
of the small fish of those waters. It would be 
difficult to remove these drawbacks to ground 
baiting tarpon waters, but they do not exist 
when a surface ‘slick’? is created. The 
material used in doing this should be, we 
