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have to wait for a rise in the river before there is fishing. I 

 have heard an angler, who has since been quite successful, 

 say, that it was not until his third visit to this river, that he 

 killed a Salmon ; and was told of a very sure Salmon-fisher, 

 who once spent three weeks at the Grand Falls, waiting for 

 the water to fall, and went home at last without killing a 

 fish. One should therefore have the whole of the month of 

 July, and the greater part of August, before him to be certain 

 of sport. A recommendation to the Nipissiguit as a Salmon- 

 river is, that there are no trees near enough to the pools to 

 obstruct one's cast. As celebrated as this river once was, four 

 or five Salmon a day now, may be considered excellent sport : 

 sometimes the catch will be one or two, or you may have 

 several blank days in succession. 



The sources of the Nipissiguit, the Ristigouche, and some 

 of the upper waters of the tributaries of the St. John and 

 Mirimichi are in close proximity, and those who have a fancy 

 for such mode of travelling, may, by means of Indians and 

 birch-canoes, ascend one river, or a branch of it, and portage 

 into another. For instance, the Nipissiguit can be approached 

 from the Mirimichi by way of the Northwest River, one of 

 its tributaries. Or from the St. John (when the water is high 

 enough for steamboats above the Grand Falls of that river), 

 by ascending the Tobique, one of its branches, and making 

 a portage of four miles to Nipissiguit Lake, where, from all 

 accounts^ Trout are shockingly abundant. A party of excur- 

 sionists who made this trip last summer passed a station I 

 was fishing on the Nipissiguit, each occupying a canoe 

 manned by an Indian. The Ristigouche is accessible from 

 the St. John by way of the head- waters of the tributaries of 

 each, and also from the Nipissiguit. 



Salmon-fishing in this country (as in Great Britain) is not 

 an inexpensive amusement, unless one is fortunate enough to 

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