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water falls the opposite side is better. The angler is more 

 certain of a fish in this pool than in any other on the river. I 

 have lit my pipe at the camp-fire at sunrise, and killed a 

 brace of fine Salmon here before I knocked the ashes out. 



" Cooper's Point" (named after Captain Cooper, a retired 

 British officer, who in former years came every summer from 

 England to fish at the " Grand Falls") is the next cast below, 

 and a continuation of " Rock Pool." It is fished generally 

 from the shore on the right-hand bank. This is as difficult 

 a place to cast from as the " Falls Pool," and as destructive to 

 flies. 



The " Unlucky," so named from the number of fish that 

 have been lost here after hooking them, is still a continuation 

 of the same pool — the lower end of it. It is fished from the 

 same side as Cooper's Point. It is good only when the water 

 is full. There is also a cast at the head of the basin on the 

 left side when there is a freshet on. "Grilse Pool," opposite 

 Gilmore's brook, and another by the bluff, with yellow pines 

 on the left side below the basin, are good Grilse-pools, the 

 water being rather shallow for Salmon in both, unless the 

 river is full. 



When the water is clear, Salmon can be seen in the river 

 quite plainly. I have counted twenty from the bluft' above 

 Rock Pool, and half that number from the camp, in the pool 

 below; and have seen the angler play his fly above their 

 very noses at such times, without their showing the least 

 disposition to take it. 



There is one thing attending a sojourn at this station, 

 which at times impresses the angler with a feeling (though 

 not a sad one) of awe. It is observed mostly when fish- 

 ing the pools just below the camp. I allude to the intense 

 silence which reigns when the wind comes from any other 

 quarter than the falls. If the birds sing high above in the 



