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Title: With fly-rod and camera
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Samuels, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1836-1908
Subjects: Fishing Fishing
Publisher: New York, Forest and Stream Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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n shore of the beautiful Baie cles Chaleursis delightful. Many, many happy days have I spent be-neath Its hospitable roof. Its proprietor knows how toentertain the tired and hungry, for he provides as gooda table as one can wish to see, and the service is first-class in every way. At Barclays the sea bathing is un-surpassed, the house standing but a few rods from theshore. The beach extends for miles, and along it areto be found scenic beauties that would delight the eyeof the artist. The best way to get to the river is to drive fromBarclays to the farms of the Millers at Sunnyside. Theyare splendid guides and canoemen, and know every inchof the river. They are employed by the lessee of theriver as guardians, and therefore know which pools arefree and which are covered by lease. Engage the Millersto carry you in their canoe clown the twelve or thirteenmiles of the river from their farms to the mouth, andlet you fish such pools as you can without infringing onthe rio^hts of the lessee.
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334 JVith Fly-Rod and Camera. Close to their house is the Bier Hole Brook Pool,and here you will take the canoe on your trip down theriver. It is a large basin, and there is almost always asalmon or two lying in it. Just below that pool is theLong- Pool, and you slide down to it through the rapidsin a few seconds. This is a magnificent pool, one ofthe best on the river. I counted over forty salmon init on one occasion, and have killed a good many fish init first and last. It is one of the easiest fished poolson the river, a beach on one shore giving the anglerfine casting stands, from which he may cover the entirebasin. Below this are a number of beautiful pools, the bestof which are the Upper and Lower Horse Shoe pools,the Jarvis Pool, Wards Pool, Rock Pool, Frankers (orFrancois) Pool, the White Rapids, Hell Gate, Red Cliffand Windmill Rock pools, and Flat Rock Pool. Someof these are free, and you will find the run down theriver delightful even if you do not fish, for the scenerythe

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