believed the salmon to have been prodigious ; but 

 I think they were excited and overjudged the 

 weight of tin- fish, for I have never seen a salmon 

 in the Cascapedia which I thought would weigh 

 over sixty pounds, and I have looked in every pool 

 at low water from Lazy Bogan down. It is very 

 uncertain judging the weight of a salmon in the 

 water, especially if ho is very long, for the longest 

 are often the thinnest, which is always the case 

 with the males. When salmon enter the river and 

 are in good condition, they weigh nearly as many 

 pounds as they are inches in length; of course 

 tln're are exceptions. 



It was reported in camp one day that a very 

 large salmon had been lost by an angler up the 

 river. All the guards were told to have an eye for 

 this monster fish, as the angler thought that 

 his salmon, being badly hurt, would surely die and 

 drift down-stream. Three days later a friend of 

 mine killed the very same fish two miles below, 

 with a part of the leader dangling from its mouth. 

 The salmon weighed twenty-seven pounds, and 

 was presented to the disconsolate sportsman. 

 " The lost fish are always the largest." During the 

 number of years I have been on the river I have 

 seen only four grilse. Although many are taken in 

 the Restigouche, the Cascapedia seems quite free 

 from them. 



About the twentieth of June large numbers of 



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