Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1875 — Salmon Fishing. [ARTICLE]

Salmon Fishing.

The following graphic and lively sketch of salmon-fishing is from an eutertaining article in the Atlantic for August, entitled “Ten Days’ Sport on Salmon Rivers,” by Dean Sage: I hooked him just in front of Mowat’s house pile rose to the same small dark Nicholson fly I had killed the other salnv on with. His first rush was not rapid as he started off, but a steady, lasting gait that showed conscious power. As he went on hrs speed increased, until he had about sixty yards of the line out, which I was obliged to give him in order not to take the Canbe past the only spot where, for some distance, we could land. When he jumped he showed larger than any fish I have seen, and made me very doubtful of my ability, to land him. As soon as I reached the beach I started down and began to reel in, but had only gained a few feet of line when the fish took another rush down-stream, and for a couple of hundred yards kept me going at full speed over a very rough country composed chiefly of driftwood, stumps and large rocks. When he halted; Whieh he did after jumping twice more, I had about ten yards of line left, and despite my fatigue and bruises (I had fallen flat over a large rock) had to keep on as fast as I could reel up. 1 had hardly gained half my line when off went the fish again and I had another foot-race, which left my reel almost bare. At the conclusion of this burst he jumped again and then began coming toward me. This is an exceedingly dangerous thing for a salmon to do and, if not soon checked, certainly results to his breaking loose, as the current thakes the line sag downstream and it is sure to catch bn some of the recks, which all have their sharp edges pointed in the direction of the current. Fortunately the canoe was some distance above me, and the Indians brought it and turned him down-stream before he had done any harm. He then took refuge behind a rock and sulked for half an hour, I being perfectly willing to havfe himdo so until I could get my second wind, it took a good deal of stoning and one pike-pole to start him going again, but at last, after as arduous an hour and a half as I ever spent, during which the fish had jumped nine .times and fought with unsurpassable resolution and intelligence, he was induced to come within ten yards of me, wliere T •held him, his fins erect and his mouth open, while Peter with many a caution 'Went just belowto gaff him. When he got in position I eased up alittle on the reel, the fish slid down-stream, Peter made a dash at him out of reach and missed; the salmon made one last»effort, parted the fraydd gut, rolled over utterly exhausted, and disappeared. Mowat saw him that evening lying by a’large stone at the edge of the rapid, just moving his fins, and with about a yard of my leader hanging out of his mouth. So severe were the rushes of this fish that I found the brass ring at the end of my rodtip cut so nearly through by the friction of the line that I was afraid to use it again. I sincerely hope that salmon lived and will populate the Restigouche with his kind, for a nobler and gamer one pever swam. Mowat thought he would

weigh above forty pounds, the Indians over fifty and I at least sixty. I don’t think I had hold oi so large a salmon as this again, though the next Monday I lost two leaders with heavy fish I did not see, which started up stream instead, of down, as soon as hooked, and could not be checked. r ' —To solder German silver pour out some spirits of salt into an earthenware or other dish, and put a piece of zinc in it Then scrape the parts clean that are to be soldered and paint over with the spirits of salt. Next put a piece of pewter solder on the joint and apply the blow-pipe to it. Malt five parts of German silver apAfourr parts of zinc into thin cakes, then powder it for solder.— Rural New Yorker. The 15th of July, by the Roman Catholic calendar, was Swithin’s Bay, of which ibis written: . St Swithte’s Day, gif ye do rain, for forty days it will remain: St Swithin’s Day, and ye be fair, for forty days ’twill rain nae malr. r Geo. P. Rowell A Co., 41 Park Row, New fork. It is indeed no surprise that their house is so prosperous, and that they are the leading advertising agents in the world, We would prefer, so far as we are concerned, to have a column or more of miscellaneous advertisements from this firm than to receive the same amount made up of one direct from each house on their list. The commission allowed is saved us by losses, as they pay every cent they contract for, and pay ft promptly, and the keeping qf one open account with such a firm is much pleasanter than with the thousand persons whom they send us advertisements for. They do an honorable, legitimatebusiness on a business basis. If publishers having dealings with them want anything in their line—and they supply everything from a spring bodkin to a cylinder press—types, inks ana til—they fill their orders promptly, at manufacturers’ prices, and we can say that we have received the best newspaper and book ink aver furnished us and at a lower price than we ever bought for elsewhere. The Republican has had dealings with this house for over six years, and in all that time we never have had any reason to complain of out treatment. —Meriden (Conn.) Republican.

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