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to twenty feet wide and with no great flow of water. 

 There were a few fish where it came into the lake. 

 We started up the small stream and had to drag 

 the empty canoe about three miles, as I was 

 anxious to see where the salmon had gone. We 

 finally came to a large pool, really a small pond 

 with water lilies all around the sides. The water 

 was about ten feet deep and the bottom of fine 

 gravel. We saw several fish rising. In this still 

 water only a dry fly or nymph fly could be of any 

 use. I finally took several fish from this pool. 

 We followed on to the head of the pool and found 

 six more of these small lakes all surrounded with 

 lilies. All were full of salmon and we took all we 

 wanted on a dry fly along the edge of the lilies. 

 It was very similar to black-bass fishing in our own 

 lakes. One of the fish caught was stained very 

 yellow from the yellow mud under the lily pads. 

 I visited this place two seasons and always found 

 it full of fish; in fact it was great fun and quite a 

 novelty in salmon fishing. 



One season on the Gander River in New Found- 

 land we reached the mouth of the river just as a 

 great run of fish was starting up the river in early 

 July. The nets had taken a large number of fish 

 and we expected to have great sport. We were 



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