THE GAME FISHES OF THE WOELD 



of the salmon, as is well shown by Mr. Comeau. In preparing 

 and improving these salmon streams Mr. Comeau hauled the 

 seine for trout in the pools, where they were eating the salmon 

 spawn and young. His average catch was two thousand pounds 

 of trout a year with a giU-net ; but in one haul of the seine, he 

 took from this greatest of American salmon rivers, trout to the 

 amount of three thousand four hxmdred pounds. 



Labrador is now the Mecca of many salmon anglers from the 

 United States, as ^Norway appeals to British anglers. Com- 

 modious steamers run from Boston to Yarmouth, iSTova Scotia, 

 then via North Sydney to Port Aux Basque, ^Newfoundland, the 

 trip taking about two and a half days. The Little Codroy is an 

 exceptionally fine salmon river with beautiful reaches and fine 

 scenery. Big John Pool, Dead Man's Pool, Kid's Eun, Seven 

 Mile Pool, Five MUe Pool, are reminiscent of ten or twenty 

 pounders. 



Salmon rods are much the same everywhere, though some 

 Americans use a lighter rod than the typical salmon rod of 

 England, with which I had my first experience on the Tweed, 

 at the Edinburgh Salmon Club. I was amazed that I could 

 place my fly across the beautiful river. Mr. Comeau mentions 

 Jock Scott, Silver Doctor, Silver Gray, Dorian Eanger, Fairy, 

 Donkey, and a white or yellowish fly for late evening. The 

 temperature of the water in the St. Lawrence Eiver is an import- 

 ant factor ; about sixty degrees Fahrenheit is good, but under 

 or above that means poor fishing. Long casting is not necessary, 

 forty feiet being an average, and the fly should be cast down- 

 stream at an angle of forty-five degrees. In the matter of time, 

 on these St. Lawrence Elvers, the best for good luck comes between 

 seven and ten o'clock in the morning, and from three until too 

 dark to cast. 



The study of the Eastern salmon is interesting. Mr. Comeau 

 states that in the middle of May a vast school moves in from the 

 Atlantic ; one school goes to the north shore, and one to the 

 south. The former divides somewhere near Anticosti Island ; one 

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