Salmon -Fishing. 



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FRIDAY, JULY 7. 



Fish, 34 pounds weight fly, Curtis. 



Curtis. 

 Robin. 

 Robin. 

 Robin. 



Silver Doctor. 

 Silver Doctor. 

 Robin. 

 Robin. 



Total weight for both days, 326 pounds. Thursday's average, 22 3-4 pounds. 

 Friday's average, 26 1-9 pounds each, and gross weight 235 pounds. Whole average, 

 25 1-13 pounds. 



Sunday is the only day in camp when all are sure to be at home 

 for an early dinner and in condition to enjoy and appreciate a good 

 one. On week-days, the cook, who never leaves camp, does not serve 

 dinner until half-past seven p. if., so as to give all time to return 

 from the pools, which are often a few miles distant. If one gets a 

 sulking fish, late in the afternoon, he may be detained until long 

 after the dinner-hour, and it is by no means a very rare occurrence 

 to have a fish gaffed by the light of a birch-bark torch. 



Canada fishing-laws forbid throwing a fly 

 Saturday evening after six o'clock, but of course 

 must allow killing a fish previously hooked. On 

 Sunday, all are somewhat rested, and appetites 

 are always keener after the day's rest which fol- 

 lows excessively hard work out-of-doors. 



On Sunday, July 4th, 1875, Mr. Reynolds, 

 sent word that with three friends he would come 

 over and take dinner with us on our glorious 

 Fourth. As his name is a synonym for hos- 

 pitality, we were quite anxious to show no short- 

 comings ourselves in that direction. Our six 

 men and the cook were assisted by Curtis him- 

 self who undertook the unheard-of thing of 

 making a loaf of cake on a salmon-stream. How 

 he succeeded is best told by his own letter to 

 his sister, who had given him the cake recipe: 



"I used every available dish in camp — 

 spilled the flour all over my clothes and the 



I.ATK TO IJINNKR. 



