known on the river are at Westfield at 
the lower end of Pomhook Lake. I 
have seen fish spawning back of Perili- 
ber Island just below Glodeo Falls, and 
again in the coves below Little Salmon 
Falls, and there are doubtless many 
other places on the river where they 
spawn. 
I N the spawning beds at Westfield, 
great injury is done by poachers 
in destroying the spawning fish with 
hay-forks and this to the great destruc- 
tion of the river. I believe the people 
are gradually beginning to realize the 
value of the salmon and the practice is 
not so frequent as in former years. 
The present Fishery Overseer is a very 
busy man and should have the help 
and respect of all the angling fra- 
ternity in the Province. 
After spawning, the fish become very 
weak and usually fall back into the 
deep waters of Pomhook Lake, where 
after a time their strength is recruited. 
Finally they start working their way 
down the river and attain a clearer 
color and put on a bit of flesh as they 
get nearer to the sea. 
[4 is in March and April that the 
salmon angler on the Medway is 
pestered by the Kelts and Kippers 
(female and male spawned fish) but 
locally known as “racers,” which take 
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the fly very greedily. I remember fish- 
ing just below the Shoal Grounds some 
years ago in March and hooking a big 
Kelt. My leader parted at the line and 
the fish had a No. 6/0 Durham Ranger 
in its jaws with nine feet of leader 
attached. I rowed my boat ashore and 
went up to the house and soaked an- 
other leader. I was probably gonc 
about twenty-five minutes. I returned 
to the same place, and on my first cast 
I hooked the same fish, thus getting 
back my fly and leader. 
HIS shows how voracious these fish 
are when they are moving seaward. 
Many a time I have seen the grilse 
Kelts or “racers” feeding on an early 
“hatch” of flies in the Stillwater be- 
tween the Shoals and Poulters Falls. 
By the middle of May all the Kelts 
have disappeared and, at about that 
time, one looks for a big “run” of 
salmon to come in the river, and if the 
water holds up the fish will surely come 
and keep coming right up to the first 
of July. Usually the grilse strike in 
about the 20th of June. An old saying 
is that “When the firefly shows, the 
grilse have arrived.” It is my belief 
that if we had a good head of water 
on the Medway river all the year 
around, salmon would be ascending the 
river every month in the year. Owing 
to the forests having been depleted by 
indiscriminate cutting and to the recent 
erection of two pulp mills which fur- 
ther destroyed the forests, the river in 
places is a mere trickle during the 
months of July, August and September. 
If it was not for the dams which have 
been built to conserve the waters on 
Molega Lake, the river would be almost 
dry on some of the falls, so we must 
give cerdit to the mills for getting 
water where it is needed most. 
WILL endeavor briefly to describe 
the different methods of fishing for 
salmon on the Medway. Most of the 
fishing is done from a good staunch 
boat with a broad stern, as the river 
is full of rapids, falls and runs, and in 
going over some of these rapids, one 
needs such a boat if one is to come 
through with a dry skin. There are 
very few “pools” that one can fish by 

A peaceful bit of river in the land of Evangeline 
wading. There are certain “pools” on 
the river to whjch salmon resort and 
it is only the resident angler or the 
guide who knows just where the fish 
lie, and the stranger will have to 
depend on them if he wants success. 
THE guides on the Medway are all 
fine anglers, wonderful casters and 
very keen to see their patrons fast to 
a fish. The angler will not go wrong 
if he takes the advice of such fisher- 
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