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pools, I had eight fish: weights, 30, 24, 22, 

 24, 30, 24J, 34£, and 29 pounds. 



On the 13th and 14th July, on the Lazy 

 Bogan pools, I had good sport, catching on 

 each of those days ten fish ; the twenty aver- 

 aged 24J pounds. H. S., who was with me, 

 on the same two days caught nine and 

 eleven, which he followed up by eight on the 

 16th, and the same number on the 18th of 

 the month. 



Of fish weighing 40 pounds and more we 

 caught one in 1884, three in 1885, two in 



1886, and one in 1887; but we had a large 

 number of fish which approached, but did 

 not reach, the 40-pound standard. The 

 season of 1884 yielded 36 fish, that of 1885, 

 54 fish, that of 1886, 65 fish, and that of 



1887, 55 fish over 30 pounds. 



If there were good days and brilliant suc- 

 cesses, there were also disappointments and 

 tragedies. The memory of some of these 

 is indelibly impressed on my mind. I can 

 still visualise the huge fish which I hooked in 

 " Jack the Sailor," at the very beginning of 



