The first authentic record of an Atlantic salmon taken on a 

 trout rod on a dry fly dates back over thirty years. The fisherman 

 was Dr. Charles E. B. Chase. The place was the mouth of Burnt 

 Hill Brook on the southwest Miramichi. The rod weighed 514 

 ounces; the salmon, if I am not mistaken, 18 pounds. The fly 

 was a Gray Palmer. The event was the most thrilling of Dr. 

 Chase's long experience as a salmon fisherman. Ten years later, 

 from the same pool, Kenneth A. Reid, of the Izaak Walton 

 League, hooked a similar fish on a Fanwing Royal Coachman 

 on a 5i/2-ounce rod. That fish got away. I saw it. It jumped all 

 over the river, the bright, white fly still in its jaw. 



This second episode is significant. There were six of us in 

 the party, and four of us were using ordinary trout rods. That 

 was in 1928. A season's salmon license (plus trout, pickerel, and 

 bass) costs you only $20.50, and includes your wife and your 

 children under eighteen. For $7.50 you can get a seven-day 

 license, with the same inclusions! 



This is for New Brunswick, which believes in poor man's 

 salmon fishing. Whereas once much choice Crown water was 

 under lease, New Brunswick now has 1,438 miles of open angling 

 water (rivers) and 132 open lakes. Total leased water is now 

 only 357 miles (rivers) and 1 1 lakes. The policy is to return 

 leased waters to the open-water status, whenever possible. The 

 result is that almost anyone can catch a salmon without paying 

 forty dollars per day, per rod. 



Seventeen stretches of formerly leased water opened up to 

 poor man's fishing in 1947 and another 123 miles of rivers and 

 forty-five lakes in 1952. These freed waters are on such famous 

 rivers as the Tobique, Nipisiguit, Tabusintac, Cains, and north- 

 west and southwest Miramichi. Complete information may be 

 obtained from the Hon. R. J. Gill, Minister of Lands and Mines, 

 Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, or from Ministers of 

 Lands and Mines of Quebec and Nova Scotia. 



Interesting rumors of Atlantic salmon have been coming out 

 of Maine recently dividends to landlock fishing. George Stobie, 

 Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Game, substantiates 

 them. Maine's better known Atlantic salmon rivers are the 



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