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kept increasing. The river changed hands, but 

 the warfare continued. The present score is now 

 and has been for some years past about two hun- 

 dred salmon on the average per season. The 

 Trinity is not an exception in this respect. 

 Equal success has been obtained on other rivers. 

 The Godbout has been systematically netted for 

 years, and for its size no other river in Canada, 

 or I might say, in the world, can compare with 

 it as a salmon river. During the first years that 

 I was guardian I used to do this netting with 

 fixed nets, but as the then proprietors thought it 

 interfered in some way with the free entrance of 

 the salmon in the river, the netting was stopped. 

 The effect was soon felt and the netting had to be 

 resumed. This is now done with a seine instead 

 of fixed nets. My average catch was about two 

 thousand pounds a year while I used the fixed gill 

 nets. Six years later when the fishing was re- 

 sumed, one single haul of the seine produced 

 three thousand four hundred pounds ! The trout 

 ranged from half a pound to seven and three- 

 quarter pounds in weight. Aside from the regu- 

 lar seining carried on each year, about one thou- 

 sand trout on an average are taken with the fly 

 by tourists and the proverbial "small boys." 

 These last are very liberally supplied each season 

 by Mr. Manuel with a free outfit of flies and fish- 

 ing tackle. The same thing is done, I am told, 

 by Mr. Morton Paton on the Trinity and Mr. I. 



