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sport. The fish are not very large, as in the more 

 northern rivers of the bay ; the average of the weights, 

 of seventy salmon killed by one rod at the Grand Falls 

 a few seasons since, was lllb. 8oz.; and of thirty 

 grilse, 4lb. The fish commence running up in June, but, 

 from the height of the water, there is rarely good fishing 

 before July; the 10th is about the best time, and by 

 that time they have gone up as high as the Grand Falls. 

 The flies for the Nepisiguit should be small and neat, 

 and of three sizes to each pattern, for difierent states of 

 water. As mistakes are often made from the different 

 mode of numbering by different makers, it will be suffi- 

 cient to say that the length of the medium fly should be 

 l-fin. from the point of the shank to the extreme bend, 

 measuring diagonally across. The patterns should be 

 generally dark, and all mixed wings should be as modest 

 as possible ; no gaudy contrasts of colour, as used in 

 Norway or Scotland, will do here. A dark fly, tied as 

 follows, is a great favourite : body of black mohair, 

 ribbed with fine gold thread, black hackle, very dark 

 mallard wing, a narrow tip of orange silk, and a very 

 small feather from the crest of golden pheasant for a 

 tail. Then I like a rich claret body with dark mixed 

 wing and tail, claret hackle, and a few fibres of English 

 jay in the shoulder. Small grey-bodied flies ribbed with 

 silver, grey legs, and wing mixed with wood-duck and 

 golden pheasant, will do well. Many other and brighter 

 flies may be used in the rough water, and a primrose 

 body, with black head and tip, and butterfly wing of 

 golden pheasant, will prove very tempting to grilse, 

 which, late in July, may be taken in any number in 

 many parts of the river, particularly at the Pabineau 



