628 AMERICAN ANGLER'S BOOK. 



THE GOODBOUT. 



This stream, although it has been mentioned in a general way, 

 still deserves a more special notice, on account of its celebrity as a 

 Salmon river. Dr. Adamson, who has fished it for nearly twenty 

 years, gives a minute description of it, in his entertaining book, 

 " Salmon Fishing in Canada," illustrated by a chart of the pools. 

 The famous upper pool apj^ears as a frontispiece to his book. Like 

 most Salmon rivers, the fishing on it varies. According to the Doc- 

 tor's book, Captain J. M. Strachan, of Toronto, whose remarkable score 

 of large fish for the year 1858 in the Moisie, is recorded on p. 385 

 of this volume, killed in the Groodbout forty-two Salmon in parts of 

 ^0 days, while in 1849, the Doctor's catch was only twenty-one fish 

 in two weeks. 



The following description of a trip to the Goodbout, as nearly as 

 can be recalled, is given from a verbal account by R. H. P., Esq.. of 

 Philadelphia, who fished it last summer, in company with two anglers 

 of Quebec. 



" Left Quebec June 17th, at 4 p. m., on board steamer Napoleon III., for 

 the Goodbout, two hundred miles down the St. Lawrence. Arrived on the 

 morning of the 19th, wind blowing heavy from north-west ; some appre- 

 hensions as to landing ; Indians came out in a sail-boat, and after some 

 difficulty landed our party of three anglers, with men, cots, stores, camp 

 equipage, &c. Went up the Goodbout two miles to camping-ground. 

 Water low, hard to get over the shoals. 



" The river opposite the camp is divided by an island several hundred 

 yards long, the channel on each side being a succession of rapids, or rather a 

 single rapid with now and then, for a short distance, water less turbulent. 

 The pool below the camp is called the Lower or Camp Pool. It is good at 

 the first of the season or in time of a freshet. ' Bell Pool' (looking up 

 stream) is on the left of the island, and ' Glassy' in the channel on the 

 right. ' Shea Pool' is at the head of the island, about two miles above 

 camp. A mile further on is ' Indian Pool,' and immediately above it the 

 ' Haywood.' Upper Pool is three miles beyond the Haywood, and can 

 only be approached on foot, over an exceedingly steep hill. Beyond this 

 pool all the river for a long distance is wild, dashing, rapid, and from all 

 accounts the river has never been fished with the rod above it. The 



