We went ashore with the first two 
salmon and in a few minutes were 
again in position. As my guide let 
down the anchor I changed to a 5/0 
Wilkinson and handed the rod to him. 
He had not long to wait before another 
salmon broke water and he cast over 
him. This fish was hooked at once, 
but in turning the rod over and at- 
tempting to wind in the slack, a meth- 
od to which he was not accustomed, the 
fish had sufficient line to throw the 
hook. Again I changed to a 5/0 Dusty 
Miller. This was a double fly while 
all the others had been single. Again 
a fish rose and was hooked on the first 
draw and killed some ten minutes later 
—twelve pounds. All four fish being 
hooked within an hour and a half. 
Having now fished for four and a 
half hours, casting continually, we re- 
turned to camp. Here we met a trav- 
eling angler who had fished for salmon 
for many years. I thought we had 
made an interesting discovery, and in 
the afternoon he went back with us 
while I again cast over the same fish. 
We did not raise a single salmon. Of 
course, it is possible, had I kept on 
fishing in the morning, that other 
salmon might have been hooked, 
though they probably would have 
stopped rising suddenly. Neither this 
angler nor his canoemen who had been 
on the river many years, recalled see- 
ing the method of using a fast-moving 
fly previously tried on salmon. 
One afternoon we fished unsuccess- 
fully with both wet and dry flies. Not 
a salmon rose. This pool was lower 
down on the river from those we had 
been fishing regularly. As the pool 
sloped off into the deepest part we 
could from the bank see a number of 
salmon distinctly. From a ledge at 
the top of the pool we could almost 
dangle a fly over the very heads of the 
salmon. As an experiment, we weight- 
ed a large fly and threw it sufficiently 
above the fish for the current to carry 
it close to the nose of a certain fish, 
the weight sinking the fly. Finally 
one salmon took the fly in his mouth 
and spit it out. This was a huge fish 
certainly over thirty pounds. As the 
current was strong it was difficult to 
carry the fly out far enough. Rather 
it was inclined to sweep in toward the 
shore on which we were standing. 
Suddenly, without any notice what- 
ever, four or five salmon charged at 
the fly while all the other fish disap- 
peared. One of the smaller fish took 
the fly and was landed. The fish which 
charged at the fly turned on their side 
in doing so. Where for a moment 
there had been nothing but their 
black backs showing, the water was 
sprinkled with flashes of silver sides. 
Why did these fish suddenly charge? 
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Why did not one fish 
rise? They swam 
back slowly into 
their old position 
when the hooked sal- 
mon was landed, but 
kept out of sight 
while he was being 
played. 
Now it has been 
established by Mr. 
Hutton that when 
salmon go to sea as 
grilse and smolt 
there is no telling 
when they may re- 
‘urn. Therefore, the 
conduct of one run 
of fish is not neces- 
sarily a criterion. 
It is quite true, how- 
ever, that to gain 
any real knowledge 
of salmon one should 
fish the same water 
year in and year out. 
The peculiar actions 
of different fish in 
different pools at 
various heights and 
temperatures of 
water is never ex- 
actly the same. 
The season of 1921 
will be remembered 
because of the large 
runs of salmon and 
the low water. The 
temperature was 
higher than it has 
been in years and 
was particularly 
adaptable to the use 
of the dry fly. Our 
own fishing had been 
indifferent. Pools 
which the previous 
year had held fish 
were empty. About 
three o’clock one af- 1 
ternoon we poled up 
to a very large pool 2 
and found it full of 
fish. Under the cir- 
cumstances the 
proper thing to do 
would have been to wait till the light 
went off the water. The day was 
beautiful and clear with a fair breeze, 
and as I waded out I was able to reach 
a rapid toward the head of the pool 
which the previous season had held sal- 
mon. 
I had been fishing with a Wilkinson, 
and as the first cast swung round a 
fish followed it in. Immediately I 
changed to a Jock Scott No. 6. This 
fish was hooked and landed. The 
second salmon wound the leader about 
its nose and played a long time. We 

. An upper Restigouche salmon pool. 
turesque surroundings. 
. Break of a twenty-five-pound salmon immediately after 
being hooked—truly he is king of fresh-water fishes. 
3. A typical dry-fly pool—slow-moving water, deep near the 
far bank. Here fish love to lie and feed in the evening. 
Note rugged, pic- 
stopped for a beach supper and at nine 
o’clock we had had nine salmon hooked 
and eight landed. It seemed, of course, 
that we had found the kind of fishing 
one reads about and I could hardly 
wait till morning. 
I was down to the pool at seven the 
next morning, but up to nine o’clock 
not a fish rose. The day was very 
bright and clear and I rested the pool 
till five o’clock. Again not a fish rose, 
and I stopped immediately to com- 
mence again at seven. I hooked three 
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