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to spend $ 1,000 to escape conviction. Meanwhile the 
trout taken from his creel lay on ice in cold storage, and 
measure less than six inches, while the legal size is seven. 
He would give much to escape the stigma, but it seems 
that he is "cinched." A good lesson is needed. 
Last year 2,896,000 young trout were planted in all 
Colorado streams. Before the close of the planting season 
of 1904, Mr. Woodard promises that the 6,000,000 mark 
will have been reached. Which seemeth a good presage 
for ye angler of 1905. J. D. C. 
Niwfoud land's Free Sjlm on Fishing 
Before me is a list of named salmon rivers that may be 
leased in Quebec and Canadian Labrador, the prices for 
the right to fish varying from $50 for one stream to as 
much as $1,250 for like rights on another. Even then 
salmon fishing has been very poor this year. Experts like 
Mr. Mershon and Mr. Chambers have stated in your 
columns that salmon fishermen on the Restigouche and 
Cascapedia have been greatly disappointed, as well as 
anglers who have cast flies on streams in Quebec and 
Nova Scotia. 
Yet for a round-trip fare of about sixty dollars from 
New York to St. John's and return, including over 1,100 
miles of travel on the island in excellent sleeping and 
dining cars all the way, I found excellent salmon fishing 
at five or six different and widely separated points last 
month, in eastern, central and western Newfoundland. 
This fishing was free as the air. One may leave New 
York Sunday noon, passing through Portland, St. John, 
N. B., Truro, N.S., and along the superb Bras d'Or Lakes 
to North Sidney, Cape Breton, where the steamer Bruce 
will carry him ninety miles to the western terminus of the 
Newfoundland Railroad, and Wednesday before noon he 
may fish the pools of the superb Codroy River, about 
thirty miles from where he landed on the island. Such 
anglers as Lord Leighton and W. D. Reid took very 
heavy salmon from those pools in June and July ; but they 
were not very plentiful. However, the fish were numer- 
ous in the Humber, Gander, Exploits, Grand and St. 
George's rivers. Heavy salmon were also taken from 
Harry's Brook, but the water was too low, and big fish 
were scarce. 
Harry's Brook is formed by the spilling out of the 
waters of St. George's Pond, a splendid mountain lake 
A SECTION OF FIRE-SWEPT FOREST AT CRABB S, NEWFOUND- 
LAND, JUNE 30, I904. 
about fifteen miles long and two miles wide. Since I 
left that stream, I have reports from it that the rains 
have made abundant depth of water, and that the salmon 
fishing is magnificent. In the foot of the lake, just before 
the water feels the current of the stream, and over a 
space of five hundred feet each way, large fish were lying 
on the 30th and 31st of August and September 1. About 
400 salmon were there, some of enormous size — 30 to 
35 pounds each. 
As a rule, the best salmon fishing in Newfoundland 
means living under canvas. The sportsman should not 
risk failure by going when the water is low or while the 
fish are not running or lying in pools. He is almost sure 
of good sport with the salmon ; but it is much wiser to 
write to the guide and have him telegraph when the stage 
of water is right, and the fish are "on hand." But the 
fishing is there, and with reasonable conditions may be 
enjoyed in royal measure. Here is specific mention of 
a very few results of the fishing, taken almost at 
random. Some of. this fishing was personally seen by me; 
the rest is vouched for by reliable men : 
Mr. C. A. Walker and party of three, during the first 
week in August, secured 176 salmon in one week on the 
Upper Humber. Mr. Walker caught the largest, which 
weighed 22 pounds. 
On Friday, the 22d July, nine salmon were caught at 
South Branch Codroy by a party who left Tompkins by 
morning train and returned in the evening. 
Sir Brian Leighton, on Saturday, June 18, took five 
salmon, one 20 pounds. On the same day a 10-pound sal- 
mon was caught in Stephen's Pool, and a 20-pound one 
in Grendell's Pool, and parties from Philadelphia were 
getting all the fishing they wanted at FischelPs Brook. 
Twenty-five salmon were also taken between the mouth 
of Gambo and falls, weighing from 20 to 22 pounds each. 
On June 10, at Robinson's Brook, Mr. Sears captured 
a 28-pound salmon, and Mr. McDougal, of Bank of Nova 
Scotia, Halifax, captured a 24-pound salmon and two 
10-pound ones. Besides these, several other large fish 
were taken. 
Vice-Admiral Douglas, of the B. N. A. fleet, secured 
good fishing during the first week in July on Codroys. 
First salmon for season at Crabbe's was taken on 
June 27- 
Salmon were very thick on all the west coast rivers 
from July 1. 
At Crabbe's from July 7, trout and salmon were very 
plentiful in the rivers. 
Mr. Mott took six salmon at Stephen's Pool, South 
Branch, on June 27. 
A great many salrnon were going tip the river at 
Efcasbi on July I. :■■ .. <L . L. . . 
- ThiriY-?is mmm were caught u im mmm ol Kitty s 
Brook week ending Aug. 8, weighing 8 to 12^ pounds. 
A 25-pound salmon was taken at the Forks, Little 
River, 011 July 28. 
Major Ashburnham caught three salmon on June 7 at 
Little River, weighing 10 to 12 pounds. 
At Bay St. George, I took from one stretch of deep, 
clear, green water about three hundred feet long and 
sixty feet wide, salmon, grilse, brook trout and sea trout. 
That was on July 9 and 10, 1904. The fish were leaping 
every few moments. Peter Benoit, of Stephenville, who 
JAMES FOLEY, THE SKIPPER. 
must be the best guide on the West Coast, had charge of 
our camp. -In addition to his own services, he supplied ex- 
cellent tents, boats, cooking utensils, and a strong boy 
to help him, all for $3 a day. The weights of the fish 
were more than satisfactory — I was delighted. Four kinds 
of game fish from one pool ! That was the kind of sport 
"Pete" showed to me. Two hours on that one deep, 
steady run of water repaid me for all expense and trouble. 
At North Sidney, Cape Breton, we found a conductor 
of the Intercolonial Road who had brought thirty-five 
fine salmon from Newfoundland. At Rosa Blanche, on the 
south coast of the island, trout eleven inches long were 
offered for ten cents a dozen, with no buyers. I took sea 
trout near the pier at Placentia, in salt water, until I was 
ashamed, and stopped. Twelve-inch sea trout were sell- 
ing for 15 cents a dozen. A seven-pound codfish there 
cost eight cents ; they are not sold by the pound. Here 
is a picture of James Foley, the skipper of the smack that 
I boarded there. I saw a 28-pound salmon sold to a hotel 
LANDING A YOUNG SALMON OR GRILSE AT MURPHY S FALLS. 
landlady in Placentia for $1. Think of that, ye Camp-Fire 
Club diners in New York ! 
The ouananiche were plentiful in Red Indian and Grand 
lakes. Salmon were being taken at Glenwood, Grand 
Lake and Gambo, and parties returning from Long 
Harbor River in Fortune Bay told me the salmon were 
running very large there. In short, the fish were plentiful 
and the fishermen very few, with a bewildering choice 
of salmon waters, all free. On the upper west 
coast, at Bonne Bay and River of Ponds, and even at the 
Codroy, right on the line of the Newfoundland Road, 
fish after fish had been taken that weighed twenty pounds 
or over. The names, weights and dates of these catches 
were in most cases supplied, are before me as I write 
this, and are not included, in the catches already 
jnflfltipncd. 
The limit sfeiiffilly; T?e«t m '« 
common in those lakes as shiners are in the States. For 
example, at Harbor Grace, Louis Williams and four 
others brought seventy -two dozen trout on the train, a 
shameful killing. All catches of trout are counted by the 
dozen. Right near Whitbourne in eastern Newfound- 
land, Mr. P. D, Park caught 182 trout as fast as he could 
take them off the flies. His comrade got eighty-five. And 
this is one of the catches selected at random. At the Nar- 
rows on Bottom Brook, in spite of the rising to the flies 
of the myriads of salmon fry, I repeatedly landed enough 
beautiful brook trout in four or five minutes for a full 
fish meal for four hungry campers. Trout are not appre- 
ciated in that island, being regarded as we do perch and 
sunfish; only they are far more numerous. 
Anglers who live at St. John's, Newfoundland, have 
had excellent sport this season on the Salmonier Stream, 
taking salmon, very fine grilse, and trout. This river 
flows south by west on the Avalon Peninsula into St. 
Mary's Bay. It is reached from Holyrood Station, thirty- 
three miles out from St. John's, where the railroad passes 
along Chapel's Cove, a salt-water arm of Conception Bay. 
On July 1, 1904, for miles along that beach was a row of 
dead caplin (the small salt-water fish used by the cod 
fishermen for bait), at least two feet wide (and often 
four feet) and from six inches to two feet high. They 
had been cast ashore and killed by the surf, and were be- 
ing carted away for bait, food, fertilizer and oil. 
The drive by wagon from Holyrood to Murphy's on the 
Salmonier is seventeen miles over a fair country road. 
Mr. Murphy can care for sportsmen, and will guide them 
to the "lower pools," as he calls them, about three miles 
down the river, where an angler is absolutely sure, at the 
proper season and stage of water, to get royal salmon fish- 
ing. A picture is sent to you herewith of two men land- 
ing a grilse (a young salmon three years old) at the lit- 
tle pool near Murphy's "hotel." 
The lower pools are locally known as Pincent's Falls 
pools. Three men have camps there, permanent houses. 
Their names and addresses are Jim Roach, Salmonier, 
Newfoundland; Mr. Hurley, also at Salmonier; and Mr. 
Welsh, Peat House, Salmonier Road. Each one will 
guide and board anglers. I know of no other spot where 
ON" BAY OF ISLANDS. 
the accommodations are so good and all ready during the 
entire salmon season, and where excellent sport is abso- 
lutely sure to be had from about July 1 to September I. 
Further down and right at the little a Ullage of Salmonier, 
(here is again most excellent fishing at a place called 
Sandy Point. From the lower pools one may 
pass by canoe down the stream, with two or three 
small portages, enter salt water, go around Harcot 
. Bay and Point in less than two hours, and enter and go 
up the Rocky River to the line of the railroad at Whit- 
bourne, fifty-seven miles out from St. John's, with good 
salmon fishing all the way ill the fresh water. A Mr. 
Finley, with Iwo friends (three rods), took this trip on 
July 1 and 2, and came into Whitbourne with 52 fine 
salmon. But anglers who fish the Salmonier should select 
guides through Mr. Murphy, who can be addressed at 
Holyrocd, or write to one of the owners of the 
three camps at Pincent's Falls. 
The only two drunken men that I saw in New- 
foundland were Salmonier guides. But anglers who may 
think of visiting the island for the salmon fishing, should 
be absolutely sure beforehand that there is enough water 
in the rivers selected to allow the fish to run up, and 
that they have commenced running, or they may deplore 
the trip, and come away saying there is no salmon fishing 
in Newfoundland. For example, in July, 1903, a party 
visited the falls just above Willow Steady on the upper 
Plumber River, and three anglers took only one grilse 
in two days. But at the same place, a picture of which 
I will send you. Mr. Arthur Whitman and Mr. Jones, 
fish merchants of Halifax, and a Mr. Morrow, a hardware 
dealer of the same city, took sixty superb salmon in six 
days. Twenty of these fish were landed on July 11, 1904. 
Thirty-five of the catch were heavy, the largest weighing 
twenty pounds. Their head guide was Oliver Benoit, of 
Nardini's Crossing. Forty-one leaping salmon have been 
counted there in one minute by a held watch. 
I make no attempt to describe the wildness and beauty 
of the scenery. It is unique, and "must be seen to be ap- 
preciated." When such mountains as Blomidon at Bay of 
Islands rise over 2,000 feet and show patches of snow in 
July that are a mile long, no words can describe the 
scene. But I pay my tribute of respect to the mosquitoes 
and black and sand flies. Let no angler live there under 
canvas without a good supply of fly repeller. 
There are abundant forests, whose varying shades of 
green delight the eye, and views of dense tufts and areas 
of ferns and wild flowers, even that supposedly semi- 
tropical blossom, the orchid, blooming beside the railroad 
track. But there are very wide areas of blackened timber. 
Some of my sportsmen friends who may be interested in 
blackened timber, are furnished here with a view of a lit- 
tle section of burned woods at Crabb's, Newfoundland, on 
June sp4< L f,,piQwjf, 
