FROM THE ARCHIVES

t is with the greatest pleasure that one reads from time to time the records of wonderfully successful days of salmon fishing, and I have had some very good ones myself; but why is it that we so very seldom hear of the days of utter failure? They must surely occur now and then to everyone who does much fishing for salmon, and I think sometimes that the record of a day’s failure to score would often be quite as interesting as the story of a day’s success. Hence it is that I would crave the sympathy of the readers while I unfold a simple, but pitiful, tale of