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water falls the opposite side is better. The angler is more 

 certain of a fish in this pool than in any other on the river. I 

 have lit my pipe at the camp-fire at sunrise, and killed a 

 brace of fine Salmon here before I knocked the ashes out. 



" Cooper's Point" (named after Captain Cooper, a retired 

 British officer, who in former years came every summer from 

 England to fish at the " Grand Falls") is the next cast below, 

 and a continuation of " Kock Pool." It is fished generally 

 from the shore on the right-hand bank. This is as difficult 

 a place to cast from as the " Falls Pool," and as destructive to 

 flies. 



The " Unlucky," so named from the number of fish that 

 have been lost here after hooking them, is still a continuation 

 of the same pool the lower end of it. It is fished from the 

 same side as Cooper's Point. It is good only when the water 

 is full. There is also a cast at the head of the basin on the 

 left side when there is a freshet on. "Grilse Pool," opposite 

 Gilmore's brook, and another by the bluff, with yellow pines 

 on the left side below the basin, are good Grilse-pools, the 

 water being rather shallow for Salmon in both, unless the 

 river is full. 



When the water is clear, Salmon can be seen in the river 

 quite plainly. I have counted twenty from the bluff above 

 Rock Pool, and half that number from the camp, in the pool 

 below; and have seen the angler play his fly above their 

 very noses at such times, without their showing the least 

 disposition to take it. 



There is one thing attending a sojourn at this station, 

 which at times impresses the angler with a feeling (though 

 not a sad one) of awe. It is observed mostly when fish- 

 ing the pools just below the camp. I allude to the intense 

 silence which reigns when the wind comes from any other 

 quarter than the falls. If the birds sing high above in the 





