68 THE SALMON FISHEK. 



their salmon fishing, as our sons and daughters now 

 go to France and Germany for their high art accom- 

 plishments, it being then supposed that the Cana- 

 dian salmon would not rise to a fly ; an error equally 

 prevalent in late years regarding the salmon of the 

 Pacific coast, as everybody is now aware of. 



Going back no farther than twenty-five years, it is 

 easy to remember that mine was almost the only 

 salmon rod upon the noble Restigouche throughout 

 its majestic length of sixty miles of superlative sal- 

 mon-fishing ground a very different state of things 

 from to-day, when its broad swims below the Meta- 

 pedia confluence are freckled with the canoes of ama- 

 teurs receiving their expensive lessons and vexing- 

 the waters with ambidextrous Sailings which would 

 command big money on an old-time threshing-floor. 

 For two successive years I had it entirely to myself, 

 ranging chiefly from the TJpsalquitch to old man 

 Merrill's, and up to Chane's, at the mouth of Tom- 

 Kedgewick. All was solitude between. Seldom did 

 I fail to raise a salmon at the confluence of the Pat- 

 ape jaw (Patapedia). Opposite Merrill's was an ex- 

 pansive pool, to the edge of which the smooth gran- 



