102 



KENDALL: NEW ENGLAND SALMONS. 

 TABLE 19. 



Number of Salmon Caught by a Club of Bangor Anglers at the Bangor Pool, from 1893 to 1932. {Figures 



Furnished by Walter Higgins, a Member of the Club.) 



Grand total 3,874 



TABLE 20. 



Number and Average Weight of Salmon Caught by Anglers at the Bangor Pool, Each Month from April to 

 July^ Both Inclusive, in the years 1926 to 1932. {Figures Furnished by Waller Higgins, a Member of the Club.) 



'Fishing season closes July 15. 



Denny's River. 



The earliest definite reference to the capture of a salmon here is that of one taken on a 

 fly in June 1876. Old residents of Dennysville claim for this river (with the date set as 

 early as 1832), the reputation of being the first river in the United States where salmon 

 were killed on a fly. In 1893 an angler informed me he had taken one or more salmon 

 almost every year. At DennysviUe, in 1909, I was told that occasionally a fish was 

 taken but the river was in such bad condition they could not ascend. A July 10, 1924, 

 report credited to a warden, noted a fine run of salmon on the river that year, one fisher 

 having taken 12 sea salmon with fly. In May, 1926, a 193^-pound sahnon was reported 

 taken and on May 31, 1928, the weights of three landed were nine and one-half, seven 

 and seven pounds. On June 6 two anglers each landed a salmon weighing seven and 

 12 pounds. Ralph Bagley was in luck on June 22, 1929. He landed a fish after two hours 

 play, weight 24 pounds. 



