Harris tweeds, plus fours, plus heather cap. His porter stowed 

 several leather cases in the drawing room, and got the old gen- 

 tleman settled. In return for these attentions, the porter received 

 a one-dollar bill, which, along with others of much doughtier 

 denomination, had been withdrawn from the State Street Trust 

 that afternoon. 



It is likely that this grim old citizen owned or leased some of 

 Canada's creamiest Atlantic salmon water, say on the Resti- 

 gouche, Upsalquitch, or Margaree. You may be sure it was 

 sternly patroled. 



Assuming that he is now dozing over his Barren's Financial 

 Weekly, let us examine his tackle, which he calls gear. The reels 

 are Hardys or Vom Hofes, and are equipped with Hardy Corona 

 Superba, or Mills Transpar lines. The old gaffer's gaff, leather- 

 cased, hand-sewn, is a wondrous thing of steel and mahogany. 

 His flies and leaders come respectively from Scotland and Spain. 

 His waders are Scotch, and so is his whisky. 



He is accompanied by four rods, two of them 16 feet long, 

 with a grip above and below the reel seat. They weigh about 

 ii/2 pounds each. The other two are grilse rods of about 12 

 ounces, useful these days for beating rugs, if your vacuum cleaner 

 is on the blink. 



There sits your one-time standard salmon fisherman. He has 

 created a fallacy that salmon fishing is more expensive than horse 

 racing. He is not dead yet, but he is fading away. There is, at 

 last, such a thing as poor man's salmon fishing. 



We are dealing mainly with Atlantic salmon, which return 

 at intervals to their parent streams from the sea to spawn, and 

 do not, like all five Pacific species, die shortly thereafter. 



A "bright" salmon is fresh run from the sea into its parent 

 river; a "black" salmon is one which has spawned, has wintered 

 in the river, and is running down to sea again; and a "grilse" 

 is a young salmon making its first return to fresh water to spawn. 

 The grilse is indistinguishable from the landlocked salmon of 

 Maine, New Brunswick, and Quebec Lakes, except by micro- 

 scopic examination of the scales. Growth rings on the grilse's 

 scales would indicate salt-water feeding. Both salmon run from 



