FISHING AT HOME AND ABROAD 

 Gold River, which flows into Chester Bay, forty miles from Halifax, the 

 fish will sometimes take the fly in the first week of April, even before all 

 the snow water has left the river.* The rivers north-east of Halifax have 

 no run of salmon worthy of the name until well on in the month of May, and 

 in the Atlantic rivers of New Brunswick salmon do not rise to the fly 

 before June. The close season commences on September 16, but only 

 in a very few rivers do salmon take the fly after August 15. 



An occasional salmon is taken early in the season in the Dunk, a river 

 of Prince Edward Island, flowing into Bedeque Bay, not far from Summer- 

 side, but the island province can scarcely be said to have any salmon 

 fishing worthy of the name. 



In the long, narrow peninsula of Nova Scotia, with its main watershed 

 running nearly from end to end, the rivers are necessarily short. Cape 

 Breton Island, which lies at its north-eastern extremity, offers some 

 of the best salmon fishing, and the Margaree is the favourite stream. It 

 may be reached by a drive of thirty -five miles from Orangedale — a station 

 on the Intercolonial railway. Other Cape Breton rivers in which salmon 

 are found are the Mira, Middle and Denys rivers, while the St Mary's, on 

 the mainland, which is considered a fair river, can be reached either from 

 Antigonish — a railway station — or from the eastern shore. 



The Medway, which, like the Mersey, flows into the Atlantic, not far 

 from Liverpool, and about midway between Halifax and the south-western 

 extremity of the province, would be an excellent salmon river but for the 

 excessive netting to which it is subjected. In one of its best pools, in the 

 spring of 1911, an angler had been casting for about half an hour, when a 

 farmer came along, drew his net in the pool and took out two fine salmon. 

 Yet in the same pool, a little later, the angler rose and killed a fresh run 

 fish weighing nearly thirteen pounds. 



The East River, flowing into Sheet Harbour, some seventy-five miles 

 east of Halifax, on the Atlantic coastline, occasionally offers good salmon 

 fishing. In one of its pools an angler, with a seven -ounce trout rod and 

 only a hundred feet of line on his reel, had the good luck to kill, in one 

 day, two salmon and a grilse, the largest fish weighing twelve pounds and 

 taking an hour and twenty -five minutes to land. The fisherman was com- 

 pelled, more than once, to follow his fish for a considerable distance 

 in something like three feet of water. 



"The belt spring lalmon fishing in the Scottish Highlands and in Norway is obtained while the snow is runninf! 

 off.— Ed. 



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