Winter Fly-Fishing in Nova Scotia 



motion or over the back. If you do this, almost in- 

 variably the fish will turn and wind the line around the 

 gaff, and you will lose one or the other. 



Before taking the gaff out of the fish, kill it with a 

 few taps from a hardwood stick just back of the head. 

 More than one salmon has suddenly come to life and 

 flapped out of a boat because the successful angler had 

 removed the gaff and was crowing over his prize before 

 killing it. Catching and holding down a flopping salmon 

 in an ice-coated canoe is just about as easy and graceful 

 as doing a fox-trot with a greased pig on a slippery 

 ball-room floor. 



A " sport " really has not earned his diploma as a 

 finished salmon fisherman until he has hooked, played, 

 outguessed, gaffed, and eaten a Nova Scotia winter 

 salmon. 



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