THE CANADIAN LAKES AND STEEAMI 



and thirteen pounds, the average seventeen pounds. One rod 

 took twenty in one day, others fourteen, eleven, twelve, eleven, 

 fourteen, thirteen, eleven, thirteen. The longest fish was forty- 

 six inches and weighed thirty-five pounds. Trout Eiver was 

 fished by Mr. Charles Stewart Davidson of New York from June 

 20 to July 16 ; result, twenty-nine salmon, weighing three 

 hundred and eighty-eight pounds. Mr. Napoleon Comeau, the 

 keeper of the Godbout for many years, gives a record of this 

 stream for fifty years from 1859 to 1908 ; a few of the seasons 

 are as follows : — 



After the party left the Godbout this last year, Mr. Comeau 

 fished the river, and on July 7 took fifty-seven salmon, weigh- 

 ing six hundred and thirty-four pounds ; on July 10, twenty- 

 five ; on July 11, thirty-four ; on July 13, forty ; July 14, twenty- 

 five fish, weight two hundred and fifty-three ; on July 16, thirty- 

 seven salmon; on July 20, twenty-seven; on July 22, twenty ; 

 making a total of three hundred and sixty salmon for one rod, 

 with a weight of three thousand eight hundred and thirty- 

 two pounds in eighteen days' rod fishing. In 1875 three rods 

 in ten days killed one hundred and seventy-seven fish. In 

 1907 the rod catch was four hundred and sixteen fish, weight 

 four thousand six hundred and forty-three pounds. In 1908 

 the score was three hundred and eighty-seven salmon, weigh- 

 ing four thousand three hundred and eighty-nine pounds. 



These few scores show the river to be a remarkable one. In 

 these dulcet salmon streams trout prevail, and they are enemies 



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