124 OBSERVATIONS ON A SALMON RIVER 



I had to be content with smaller specimens, 

 surreptitiously smuggled on board in my 

 jacket pockets. 



How much or how little ought I to say in 

 these notes as to our own performances in 

 the fishing line? A mere reprint of our 

 journals would be monotonous and unintel- 

 ligible to an outsider. I may as well, how- 

 ever, give here the summary of our catch 

 during the four seasons. We caught 

 amongst us 1245 salmon, weighing 29,188 

 pounds, an average of 23J pounds. Two 

 hundred ten of these fish weighed 30 pounds 

 and over, and the largest weighed 45 pounds. 

 The fishing season was very short, lasting 

 from the second week in June to the end of 

 July, after which time there were other calls 

 to meet, while the river became too low for 

 fishing. It should, perhaps, be explained 

 that our party consisted of the writer and his 

 little staff, assisted now and again by the 

 ladies. Besides these there were occasional 

 visitors, amongst them Sir Lionel Sackville- 

 West, then Minister at Washington, Lord 



