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was gaffed the fly dropped out of his mouth. We 

 staggered home that night with four salmon and three 

 grilse, weighing 89 pounds in all. Such as these are 

 red-letter days in one's calendar. My next best day 

 was below the bridge, when, in a gale of wind, I killed 

 seven fish weighing 82 pounds and lost four more. 



There are still salmon in the Erne, for in July 

 of 1903 I was fortunate enough to kill seventeen fish 

 seven salmon and ten grilse in seven and a half 

 days' fishing, the largest of which was a twenty-eight- 

 pounder. 



