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A few years since, after a fortnight's fishing on the 

 Nepisiguit, during which my companion and myself 

 took eighty salmon, notwithstanding an unprecedented 

 drought, we visited the Eestigouche, more for the sake 

 of enjoying its fine scenery than expecting sport. Stay- 

 ing for a day, however, at the house of a hospitable 

 farmer who dwelt by the river-side, at the junction of 

 the Matapediac with the main stream, I had the plea- 

 sure of hooking the first salmon ever taken with a fly 

 in the Eestigouche water, a fine clean fish of twelve 

 pounds. In an hour's fishing I had taken three salmon, 

 each differently shaped, and at once pronounced by my 

 host to be frequenters of three separate rivers which 

 here unite — the two already mentioned and the Upsal- 

 quitch. 



The Matapediac has a course of sixty miles from 

 a large lake in Eimouski, Lower Canada, and the Upsal- 

 quitch runs in on the New Brunswick side. They are 

 both fine rivers, and ascended by salmon in large 

 numbers ; the latter is stated to be very like the Ne- 

 pisiguit in character — full of falls and rapids, and I 

 believe it would afford equal sport. It looked most 

 tempting as we passed its mouth on our long canoe 

 voyage up the main river, but we had not time to stay 

 and test its capabilities. About sixty miles from the sea 

 we discovered a salmon pool in the Eestigouche, and 

 took eight small fish from it in an afternoon ; but such 

 pools are few and far between, and I would not recom- 

 mend any one to ascend this river for sport above the 

 Upsalquitch. The flies we used here were dark clarets 

 and reds ; I believe any fly will take, recommending, 

 however, larger sizes than the Nepisiguit flies, as the 



