SOME FISH AND SOME FISHING 



sea the same autumn, but a large number 

 winter in the rivers and come down stream 

 in the spring as kelts or "sHnks." 



The French Canadians call these fish 

 lingards — a corruption of "long gars." 



The kelts that descend the rivers in the 

 autumn are dark in colour and slimy, 

 whereas those that leave in the spring, 

 having molted, are bright fish. This, at 

 least, is the present day theory. 



It is supposed that the grilse are four 

 or five years old and that their rate of growth 

 after that period is from four to six pounds 

 a year. 



A salmon was caught at West Baldwins 

 half a mile from Channel Head, Newfound- 

 land, by Louis Sheaves on June 5, 1919, 

 with a silver tag attached to its dorsal fin 

 marked A1124. The fish when caught 

 measured 40 inches in length, 23 inches in 

 girth and weighed 26 pounds. R. Mosdell, 

 the station master at Port aux Basques, ob- 

 tained the fin tag and submitted it to the 

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