Suarpr Contest wiru A SALMON. 243 
gaff, when it scaled twelve pounds; and, though not large, it 
is something to play and save a twelve-pound salmon with a 
single gut in a swift and shallow rapid just above a chute. 
We now proceeded to the second pool above, where the 
doctor seated himself to rest on shore and watch my move- 
ments. Here also the run was about twenty rods wide, with 
the channel along the bank opposite. I therefore waded out 
so as to cast across the main current, and let my fly sweep 
round to the eddy, some eighty feet below. IT had not made 
many casts before a salmon deliberately swam up to my fly 
and examined it, and then, as if suspicious, turned from it 
like electricity, his turn forming a most exciting whirl. In 
vain I east several times more, but the run was too wide to 
deliver my fly at the farther shore, where was a deep pool 
trom which I might have enticed him. But we gave up the 
chase and commenced a return, the doctor walking along 
the shore, and I wading and casting as I went. We had not 
gone far when I hooked a very elegant salmon. There was 
a pool on each side of the run, and the salmon took the fly 
on the farther side. As soon as the fish realized that he was 
firmly hooked, he came across the run for the pool near us. 
T stood in the water nearly between the two pools, but rath- 
er above them. As the run was very rapid all the way be- 
low until it entered the St. John, I requested the doctor to 
fall below the salmon, and thus prevent the fish from run- 
ning the chute. The doctor waded below the pool on the 
left, and as he saw the salmon darting for that pool, he ran 
below, to prevent the fish from turning down stream after it 
should learn that it was mistaken in finding protection where 
it was going to seck it. The salmon came to the near pool, 
and, finding no assistance, it endeavored to sulk a little, but 
finally resolved to run the chute, or return to the pool at the 
farther shore. 
After a close contest of an hour’s duration, in which the 
salmon passed twice between the doctor’s legs, the fish was 
brought to gaff, and weighed fifteen pounds. On returning 
