SALMON RECORDS 375 



Salmon fUr0rb, Jttnisu flifor, 1871 



Record of salmon angling with fly on "Moisie" 

 by three rods, July, 1871 : 



Fish Ibs 



Mr. John Brown, of Hamilton 200 3676 



Mr. John Ogilvy, of Montreal 87 1511 



Mr. Thos. Ogilvy, Brechan, Scot- 

 land 38 692% 



Totals 325 5879% 



It is worthy of note in this connection that the 

 first named gentleman of the above party, Mr. 

 John Brown, of Hamilton, was one of the earliest 

 fly-fishermen on the North Shore of the St. Law- 

 rence, or at all events one of the first to whip the 

 now famous Moisie river for salmon. 



He was a brother of Mr. Adam Brown, ex- 

 M.P., for some time President of the Dominion 

 Board of Trade, and later, Postmaster of Hamil- 

 ton, Ont. 



A snap shot picture of Mr. John Brown, taken 

 a few years before his death, appears in this 

 book, facing page 66. 



Mr. Brown was an old friend of Messrs. Fraser 

 and Holliday, the original proprietors of the sal- 

 mon netting privileges on the Moisie. 



The individual scores of Mr. Brown and his 

 companions for 1871 were as follows : 



