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forty minutes, with both hands holding the rod while he kills 

 his fish, and the unconscionable insects attacking him on 

 every exposed part of his body 1 No writer ever did justice 

 to the situation. It is interesting to observe the devices em- 

 ployed to protect the expoBed parts of the person. Nets, 

 gloves, gauntlets, wristlets, helmets, masks, oils, essences, 

 and a score of other contrivances are called into nquisition, 

 tut without much relief. The best remedy is to wear woolen 

 clothinc and tuck the trousers snugly into the boots. Wading 

 pants which come to the arm-pits are an effective remedy, 

 but very hot in warm weather. For the hands wear lamb'B- 

 wool lined leather gloves. They protect, the hands and wrists 

 completely, and can be pulled off or on easily. All other 

 -kinds of gloves stick. A loose- linen helmet over the head, 

 and drawn tightly over the face with an elastic through a 

 .hem is quite efficacious, but the flies are apt to crawl under- 

 neath. Fuil your soft hat well down, turn up your coat 

 collar, and wear untinted glass goggles, if the flies attack 

 your eyes. With such a rig you are not inly nearly fly-proof, 

 but an interesting subject for a photographer. Oils and emo- 

 lients do not give satisfaction. A compound of tar and oil is 

 the very best of all preventives, but it is sticky and disagree- 

 able. While our cool weather lasted, flies did not trouble us, 

 but with the first warm day they came in swarms, and their 

 energy and persistency is now something terrific. Fortunately 

 we have one place of refuge after the battles of the day : yet 

 our closely guarded houses are not altogether exempt. Des- 

 pite the protective screens at all the windows, the rooms fill 

 Tapidly when the doors open, and swarms follow any person 

 who enters. They enme in by the back-load. Instinctively 

 flying toward the light, they gather upon the windows and 

 crtep about the glass in darkening myriads. On Sundays, 

 when there is uo fishing, the leisure hours are profitably em- 

 ployed in repeating the Snorter Catechism and mashing tbem, 

 one at a time, with the end of the forefinger, changing to the 

 thumb or middle finger when that gets tired. It will be 

 readily perceived that at the rate of two a second, which is a 

 fair business, a very krge number can be disposed of in a 

 short time, and the room be cleared if the doors be kept shut. 

 But there is another more expeditious method, which is to 

 sm< ar the panes with oil, into which the flies flying are imme- 

 diately and immovably stuck, and of course soon perish mis- 

 erably. When the windows become so covered as to be 

 obscured, the darkening mass is scraped off with the back of 

 a case kuife and the oil renewed. Fortunately the creatures 

 disappear at nightfall, so that unalloyed rest and sleep are 

 assured. 



Successful fishing in the Canadian salmon rivers is no 

 child's play. To secure good scores, it Is not only necessary 

 to understand the habits of the fish ; to cast and play the line 

 properly; and to handle the fish judiciously when hooked, 

 but each stream has its physical peculiarities, so that even the 

 most skillful angler will be beaten by those who are perfectly 

 familiar wttti the river be fishes. Moreover the labor is ex- 

 cessive in such rapid and tumultuous rivers as the Godbout, 

 and the utmost tact is very often required to save a fish. 

 Though a frtquenter of the more quiet streams of New Bruns- 

 wick aud Nova Scotia for the past twenty 'years, the feats ac- 

 complished here often astonish me. Perhaps I can convey an 

 intelligent idea of the difficulties and dangers of the sport by 

 taking the reader through the successive pools, of which there 

 are fourteen in all. 



In the first place I must tell you that this is only a tJireerod 

 river, although there are five of us fishing here at present. 

 Rivers are gauged according to their capacity to afford good 

 aDghng for a given number of rods, aud the rentals are deter- 

 mined accordingly. When a party is on a river, certain pools 

 or sections are assigned to each rod each day, and these pools 

 are fished in roiation, so that all have equal chances. The 

 season begins about the middle of .) line, though a few fish ar- 

 rive earlier. Tbey come in gangs with each tide, and the ex- 

 perienced hand can usually tell whether the arrival be large or 

 Broall. In the early part of the season the rivers are very high, 

 so that the lower pools afford good sport at low tide ; but as 

 the river falls aud diminishes in volume the lower pools with- 

 in the reach of tide-water become useless at all times, for they 

 are shallow at low tide, and salt at high tide. In neither case 

 will the salmon taEe the fly. It is apparent that an early run 

 of fish is most desirable, for the river is then likely to be full 

 with the spring flood, aud the fishing range is much extended. 

 The run of fish this season is laie, and we have taken only 

 about seventy in all, '.hough some of them are unusually large 

 for the Godbout, one-half of them ranging between 18 and 28 

 lbs. Salmon vary in average size in different rivers. Tbe 

 average here is 11 lbs. : in some rivers it is double. The de- 

 ficiency in weight is however made up in numbers. The fol- 

 lowing is a statement of tbe tnke here lor eleven years: — 



Uuniher Wi-1ght Koila. 



01 Fiat, lbs 



473 J.hfiS 4 Jane 20 to July u 



624 6,1*5 5 " IS " 21 



421 <3.«69 4 " It «' 20 



273 3»K6 S " 15 " 3 



tin 5.4113 4 '• 16 " 17 



899 4..<4S 4 " 17 " 18 



509 0, 21 6 '• 15 " IS 



217 234'.) 4 " 2(1 " 9 



132 1.405 6 •' 19 " 12 



213* 8.017 4 " 27 " 1 



177 1,936 3 " 2S " S 



" This was the ye«r 1ST4 The lesBee? and their Mends left early, 

 and the river was auhsiquentiy flsmd by Nicholas Cumeau, the river 

 guardian, who la one of trie bent augters In the world, and second only 

 to Ailau Gum 'Ur, Esq., who la still high iod.outhe Godbout. Comeau 

 fished lion) the fcth to the ijr.h ol July and touk 365 lt»h, weighing 3,873 

 iba,, which is said 10 be the beat rod. ashing ever known. 



When the salmon first come into the rivev from the salt 

 water they are gorged with capelin, sand eels, shrimp, and 

 other sea food. Their arrival is indicated by the splashes 

 which they make in leaping from the water. In the height of 

 the season as many as fifty are seen in the air together. It 

 has even been asserted with some emphasis, that on a certain 

 year they kept the occupants of the camp awake at night 

 with their noise, which was like falling boulders plumping into 

 the water from tbe heights opposite. When the fish come all 

 is excitement at the Camp. Up goes the bunting from tbe 

 flagstaffs on the tower and promontory, and all the gaffers 

 come up from the hamlet below to the Camp. A boat is as- 

 signed to each gaffer, and each doughty knight of the rod 

 comes forth en grand tenue, and takes his place in the bow, 

 prepared for a fair hand-to-hand, stand up fight with the sal. 

 mon. The results will be duly recorded in the evening on the 

 bulletin slate which hangs at the end of the cottage. All the 

 gaffers are Frenchmen, and the angler who cannot parley a 

 few words (un peu) will be likely to stand at the tail of the 

 list. Now we are all ready—" Montee, a la roc/ie, a haul." 



The Godbout River heads in Minecuagan Lake, whence 

 also flows the Mineconegan River in a southwesterly direction 

 toward the St. Lawrence. It is sixty miles in length, but only 

 two miles of it are suitable for rod fishing. Fr. .m its source 

 to its mouth it is a turbulent stream, tumbling through gloomy 

 mountain gorges with a continuous precipitous pitch, aud pil- 

 ing itself into billows of foam against huge boulders which 

 obstruct its tortuous channel. It seems a marvel how the sal- 

 mon can ever work their way to their spawning grounds in 

 the upper stream. The limit of the fishing is at what is called 

 the "Upper Pool," where the long pent waters rush down 

 through a csfion sixty feet deep, with an impetuous discbarge 

 and spread out into a broad basin just under the shadow of an 

 impending mountain. After whirling awhile in an inky eddy, 

 flecked with bubbles and foam, it jams itself against a con- 

 fronting cliff, and then dashes off again as impetuously as be- 

 fore, though in a broader and more shallow channel. Below, 

 the shore- are nearly vertical all the way, and tringed with 

 trees. The bed is choked with boulders and the air is damp 

 with the spray which rises from churning waters. It is white- 

 ness all the way to the Camp, save where temporary pauses 

 are made at the pools, which I have no doubt are most accept- 

 able and necessary halting places for the salmon in their tedious 

 ascent. Following the river, a path has been constructed 

 through the woods with much difficulty and expense, so as to 

 communicate with the pools. Trees have been chopped 

 away, rocks blasted out, hewn logs stretched across chasms, 

 hollows filled up with stones and earth, hand-rails placed 

 where the brink is dizzy and the footing precarious, jetties of 

 stone built up around projecting cliffs which bar the passage. 

 There are drinking cups at the cold wayside springs which 

 trickle down the moss-grown rocks. At two of the pools long 

 reacheB of ladders are laid over the boulders in the foaming 

 midstream so as to reach to points of vantage for casting. At 

 other pools boats are moored for special service there. Hall 

 way down, tbe stream is crossed by a rope ferry which swings 

 you across the foot of a rapid to a landing cut in the solid 

 rock, whence an iron railing assists the ascent up the bank. 

 The expense of all these improvements was fully a thousand 

 dollars Oh ! this is the luxury of salmon fisning, indeed. In 

 my ignorance, begotten of a limited experience, I had imagined 

 the. most difficult salmon river to be no more than a series of 

 placid pools, in which the fish having been secured by a long 

 line delicately cast and manipulated was handily brought to 

 gsff ; or if perchance he ran into the gently rippling rapids 

 below, then to be followed by a hasty chase over the slippery 

 stones, and peradventure a wetting in the lower stream. I had 

 never thought of saving a fish in a mill-race, and even shud- 

 dered at the possibility of hooking one there. Here it is dif- 

 ferent—as I shall prove in an additional letter, for this is al- 

 ready too long spun. Haixooe. 



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Massachusetts — Boston. July i. — A general programme 

 was made up at Walnut Hill lor the National Holiday, four 

 rifle maiches and a glass ball match were on the list. Each 

 was well contested, and a large attendance of spectators 

 witnessed tbe display. The conditions were excellent for 

 shooting, the wind staying quite steadily throughout the 

 sport. 



Tbe amateur series at 200 yards was the first match. 



OMJ-well ...5 54446465 5—1* 



K F Richardson . , 4 6 5 6 4 5 4 4 6 4 4S 



SLewia 5 45444543 4- 4S 



M Williams 5 4534443s 5-«2 



A Subscription Match also at 200 yards, was the nexi 

 event, and Mr. Jewell also took first prize in this competi- 

 tion, with an excellent 33, the number of rounds per marks- 

 man being seven. The names of the four prize winners, 

 with their Bcores, are appended as follows : 



OM Jewell 33 F F Rlcharrieon 32 



llutibard 32 E F Brooks 30 



The 900 yard carton match had 40 entries. Tbe shooting 

 in this match was of a high order. Messrs. Gerrish and 

 Brown titing for first plnce, on the remarkably good showing 

 of 40 out of a possible 42. Tbe lie was shot off, and was de- 

 cided in favor of Mr. Gerrish on the first r< und, he getttDg a 

 " carton" or " six," agaiDst a " bull's eye" for his opponent. 

 The first prize is a silver medal of the Massachusetts Rifle 

 Association. 



W GeMah 6 6 6 4 6 6 6-40 Jaa Weroyss, Jr. .5 6 5 5 I 6—36 



,) F rlrowil 6 6 6 4 6 6 11—40 W M Ward 4 5 6 5 6 5 4-:-5 



Sa.em Wilder 6 6 6 6 6 4 5-38 N Washouxn 6 3 5 5 3-34 



W H Jackson 4 5 6 6 6 5—31 



The renewed competition in the Winchester rifle match 

 had 28 entries, Mr. Hubbard leading his competitors on 68. 



The conditions of this match call for fifteen rounds per man 

 at 200 yards. The best scores are as follows : 



T, L Hubbard 64464655644456 4—68 



E F RichardrOU 544645 4 48454 5 4 5—61 



M L Wlualllp 64545554454444 4—06 



A BabMrige i H I H d 4 1 S 4 S H 5—66 



W Ul.arleS 4 4 465444444446 5-64 



J Wcinys ,Jr 4445 5 44 54 4 (< 45 4-64 



.1 Borden 4 4 544444 5444464- 63 



E F Brooka 34445544544444 4-62 



RPoge 4 3 4 53 4424 544 34 8—66 



July 5 — Several matches were fired at Walnut Hill range 

 to-day, and much interest was manifested in the sport. The 

 weather was nearly all that could be desired, an unsteady one 

 to five o'clock wind being the only objectionable feature of 

 the day tn the men before the butts. The first event decided 

 was the 500 yard off hand match. One gentleman (Mr. B. 

 F. Richardson) made 27 out of a possible 35, seven rounds, 

 at i he distance. 



The Winchester rifle match had a large number of entries. 

 Good resulls were recorded. Mr. Jewell again coming to the 

 front with an excellent 69, 15 rounds, at 200 yards. This 

 match will be concluded Saturday next, the requisite number 

 of entries having been made to warrant the announcement. 

 Following is to-day's result : 



OMJewell 4 5555645455454 4-69 



JB.r.ien 5 4445564644554 5—68 



« L W nslup 5 4464446546555 4— 67 



JNlC'Ola 5 464*643643665 5—66 



J A Lowell 4 34655464544 5 5 4—66 



R DilVia 5 4545534544444 5— <5 



Ttie chief event of tbe day was the Spirit of Ike Times match. 

 In this there was another fine display of tbe shooting for 

 which Massachusetts riflemen have become famous. Mr. 

 Sumner heads the list with a splendid 217 out of a possible 

 225. Other of tbe competitors made good records at the 

 several distances at which the match was shot, as will be seen 

 by the subjoined summary : 



J S Sumner. 



F00 6 5655455555653 5—72 



9"0 5 5556544546565 5—72 



1,000. 6 5546655585556 4— 13— 21T 



W H Jocka-n. 



600 4 5546565554565 6—72 



MI0 , 6 4655555355545 6-73 



1,000 4 2653554646664 5— 60-209 



W Gi-rrish. 



800 5 3 5 4 6 5 5 5 5 5 i 5 5 6 5-71 



900 4 4544564665455 5—69 



1,000 4 4355354555555 5— 6S— 208 



Salem Wilder. 



800 6 6466456555565 5—73 



9"0 5555455556654 4—67 



1,0j0 , i 5525554546545 4—67—207. 



J F Brown. 



800 5 544655555 3 555 5—71 



900 5 4556655346464 6-68 



t,<00 3 4454554 5 45464 5-66—205 



WMWftrd 62 62 64 leg 



Jihadtvell «3 63 61 is? 



JNiCuols 67 64 56 r,T 



Bellemie Hinge, July 2. — The Medford Amateur Rifle As- 

 sociaiii'u in regular competition to-day shot at 200 yards in 

 the Sharps match, with scores : 



HHDruahing 4 45656455 4-4B 



H & Kieliardson 4 56455455 4— 46 



JMOa.OL.e 5 55445454 4—45 



J to nun 5 44554445 4-44 



K -->a.wyer 4 44444445 6-42 



U fl Rusael .5 44445444 4—42 



B J Paige 5 5 3 4 4 4 4 3 4 4-40 



WAWeobt-r 4 3 3 4 3 4 3 3 4 3-34 



Same range, July 4— The Raymond Sporting Club had a 

 glass ball shoot to-day, and a rifle, competition as well. The 

 rifle work was at 200 yards off-hand, and out of possible 50 

 the following were scored : 



DKirkwod 5 65665445 5-4= 



H K Richardson 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 4 6 5-44 



UR>. Curbing 4 445464454 43 



> s ' Gneth 6 56444444 4-43 



BB-iu.eu 3 4 4 4 3 5 4 4 5 6-41 



"K Lyman 4 33444444 4Z39 



South Framingham, July 2.— The rifle club was out yester- 

 day. The bidee was taken by W. H. Trowbridge by a score 

 of 4l out of a possible 50 This is the fifth week Mr. Trow- 

 bridge has taken the badge. Following is the score; 



W H Trowbridge 3 54544444 4—41 



Fre.lL.CHK8 4 45444434 VZb 



Charles H Clark 3 24333404 3-27 



Akron, July 5.— The following is the score made by the 

 Akron Rifle Association June 20; distance, 200 yards "off- 

 shoulder :" 



s Fra 'ek 4 44464554 5—44 



W H Carter 5 44554444 6—44 



CB remaa 4 4 4 4 3 5 5 5 4 5-43 



Joe Young 3 5 5 4 4 4 4 5 4 4^42 



Atvea 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 4 4-41 



H Wing 4 4 4 6 4 4 4 4 4 4-4} 



The badge was won by Mr. Frahck. 



Collinsville, July 4.— Canton Rod and Gun Club, Riverside 

 Range. Practice meeting at 200 yds., off-hand, 31bs null 10 

 shots: e ' 



OBHull 12101111 9 111110 912-^w" - ° Te Jk a ' 



OFLewia 9 10 1112 1'! 9 10 7 12 8-9S Ja 



Sauboru ^ 10 10 00 6 10 10 9 8— 88 40 



Ue'Well 7 5 10 6 1110 1110 4 12—86 40 



Andrews 11 lull 6 10 95798— 85 40 



Luub-nsteia 10 9 6 11 6 6 8 9 8 10—83 ?T 



fttfter 11 5 9 7 7 1 6 4 10 8-78 is 



Chapin 5 10 4 5 9 9 12 8 S 8— 78 35 



Hopkinton, July 4 —The Hopkinton Rifle Club held a 

 maicu at thtir 500-yard range last week. The weather con 

 ditions were unfavorable, with slight haze and gusts of wind" 

 Some good scores were made. Below is the summary : 



N Jewell 4 5464555655455 5-11 



OS* 1 "' 6 4 S S 5 5 5 6 4 5 5 5 5 2 4 g-S 



EPRo-e 3 2 3 4 3 4 4 4 5 5 4 6 6-M 



" . W -f- 5 3 3 3 5 5 2 2 4 2 3 2 4 § 3-I9 



PWbmith ...2 4 4 4 4 5 3 6 5 6-41 



To-day the club held a match in Cloftin's Grove with the 

 Framingham Club for a prize Of a silver cup, offered by en- 

 fine Company No. 4. It was won by the Hopkinton Club 

 The weather conditions were bad. Seven rounds at 200 yds ' 

 off hand, and seven at 500 yards. The following is the sum' 

 mary of best scores : 



Hopkinton c:uh. 



ALRce 5 35444454B65K K_«a 



N*>W*11 2 4 4 4 4 4 5 i S 1 5 5 Jig 



Framingham Club. 



FSOnka 44 5 4552544022 4— fin 



WH Trowbridge 3 3 2 -1 3 4 4 2 I 4 2 I g 5^? 



—The Beachmont Rifle Club is holding a series of shoots 

 for a silver cup. The conditions are that ihe cup must be 

 won three times by the same person to become his property 



