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Day then gives some records as follows : 'Respecting those taken by angUng in Scotland 

 LasceUes, Letters on Sporting, gives 543/^ pounds as the largest he had heard of; Young 

 mentions one 67 pounds captured in 1812 in the Nith; Yarrel one killed by Earl Home in 

 the Tweed which weighed 69 J^ pounds; Pennant, one of 74 pounds; Buckland cast one 

 of 70 pounds; 4 ft. 5 in. long, taken from the Tay. In 1885 the largest salmon netted 

 in the Tweed were 56 lb., 44 lb., 43 lb., and of those taken by anglers 46 lb., 44 lb., 



and 43 lb.' 



Lawson B. Bell (1887, p. 479) gives weights of his captures as foUows: 'In 1884 I 

 killed 11 salmon on the St. Mary's River [Sherbrooke, N. S.] that averaged 303^ lb. 

 In 1886 I killed 42 salmon on the Restigouche that averaged 23^ lb. This season I 

 have killed eight salmon on the St. Mary's River weighmg 28, 27, 32, 47^, 39M, 28, 

 2434 and 28 lb.; total 254 lb., and average 31^ lb. I was late upon the ground and 

 most of the large fish had passed along before I arrived.' 



In March, 1896, A. N. Cheney (1896, p. 199) writes that R. G. Dun killed a 54-pound 

 fish in the Cascapedia, Canada, beating by four pounds the salmon killed in the same 

 stream by President Arthur, which was the record salmon at the time of its capture. 

 Mr. Cheney writes that Mr. A. K. Sloane during the previous summer had killed a 

 salmon which weighed 74 pounds, presumably in the Romaine River, Labrador. This 

 River has not been noted for its large fish as Cascapedia has. Mr. Cheney also writes of 

 Dr. W. H. Drummond, of Montreal, president of the St. Maurice Club, who killed a 

 salmon from the Cascapedia weigliing 50 pounds, 8 ounces, and 52 inches long, entitUng 

 it to rank between the fish of President Arthur and that of Mr. Dun. 



Paulze d'lvoy (1914, p. 200-201) gives some records of large salmon taken by line. 

 The largest salmon taken by Une are those taken in 1750 by Count de Home, which 

 weighed 69 pounds, 10 ounces; one of 61 pounds, 8 ounces, by M. J. Wallace, in 1872; 

 another of the same weight (?) in 1907 by M. T. Stewart, and fmally one of 61 pounds, 

 in 1870, by Mr. J. Haggart. 



In early July, 1929, there was an unprecedented catch of salmon by the floating traps 

 or pounds at Battle Harbor, Labrador. The largest fish taken, I was told, weighed 

 about 62 pounds. There were many other large fish some of which would have weighed 

 perhaps 30 pounds or more, but I saw none of them weighed. Concerning the weight of 

 salmon m the Gulf of Mame, Bigelow and Welsh (1925, p. 130) say, 'The largest sahnon 

 we find mentioned was an EngUsh fish of 83 pounds. None even approaching this size 

 is recorded from our side of the Atlantic, where a 50-pounder is unusual, though fish of 

 40 pounds weight are not uncommon in some of the larger rivers emptying into the 

 GuK of St. Lawrence. In the Penobscot and St. John Rivers very few fish reach 40 

 pounds and 30-pounders are rare, the usual run being 10 to 12 pounds. Taking one river 

 with another, large and small, 10 pounds may set as a fair average of the mature Gulf of 

 Maine fish. With due allowance for individual and seasonal variation a two-foot fish 

 will weigh about six pounds, one of three feet, 16 to 20 pounds.' 



