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were as sore as if beaten. Fully three hours 

 were occupied in capturing him. As he lay 

 before me, his appearance made me a proud 

 fisherman. A great deal of the successful 

 issue of that struggle was due to the double 

 cast and double hooks, both of which were 

 under his jaw, and could not break or tear out. 

 A single cast and hook would have stood a 

 slim chance in such a stubborn fight. 



A fortnight prior to the event just narrated, 

 a young friend with Lew Labrador, his Indian 

 guide, in one boat, and myself alone in 

 another, went to the pool at the head of the 

 tide opposite and below Davison's Lower 

 Mill. In those days the pools were much 

 finer resting-places for salmon than now, and 

 many more of them, so that two or even three 

 boats could have equally good sport, by one 

 fishing the upper, another the centre, and the 

 third the lower pools. It was Monday morn- 

 ing at 7.30 when we started, not expecting 

 even ordinary luck, as on the Saturday before 

 only one fish was seen. We were, therefore, 

 more than surprised to find that a new run of 

 famous fish had come into the pool on that 

 tide. We started in with Cock Robins, 



