CHAPTEK IY. 



RE-STOCKING SALMON WATERS WHAT HAS BEEN 



AND WHAT MAY BE. 



There's a river in Macedon, and there is also, moreover, a 

 river in Monmouth ; it is called Wye at Monmouth, but it is 

 out of my prains what is the name of the other river ; but 'tis 

 all one, 'tis so like as my fingers is to my fingers, and there 

 is salmons in both. [King Henry V., Act 4, sc. 7. 



HE longing of twenty years has 

 been gratified. I have had three 

 weeks' salmon fishing in one of 

 the best rivers on the continent ; 

 and as many of my readers are 

 quite as fond of angling as I am 

 myself, they will be interested in 

 a brief record of my experience 

 in this highest department of the 

 gentle art. 



All the most desirable salmon rivers in the three 

 provinces of Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova 

 Scotia, are preserved. Not many years since it be- 

 came alarmingly apparent that this kingly fish was 

 being rapidly exterminated, and that, unless some 

 stringent measures were adopted for its preserva- 

 tion, it would speedily become as scarce as it had 

 heretofore been abundant. The experience of the 



