GREAT SPEED OF SALMON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12663, 17 September 1904, Page 5 (Supplement)

GREAT SPEED OF SALMON.

Just how fast salmon can travel has never been proved. Owners of weirs say that a healthy salmon can swim faster than any; torpedo boat. Here is some evidence on the. subject. ' ■ , : Frank Arey, of Winterport, Me., went fishing the other day at the pool below Ban-* gor Dam. He landed two small salmon on. the flood tide. About half-past eleven a.m. he struck a big one, which caused his, rod; to bend until it was perilously near;; the breaking point. Then the .salmon darted under the boat, and catching tire line against the keel severed the fly and leather, from the silk string and escaped. Disgusted with his luck, the young man landed and went to Bangor at twenty minute? to twelve, remaining in the city until the afternoon train took him home. .His father met him at the station, saying":— "I have got your fly and leader all right, Frank. 1 found them in the jaw (rf -■ a twenty : six-opnd i salmon, which I took from the weir at high tide to-day. It was just leu minutes past twelve when I dipped the fish from the weir into my punt. What time did you lose your rig?" ■ * . -, On comparing watches, father and son learned that tehe fjsh had gon«i from a mile above Bangor to Bueksporfc Centre, a distance of thirteen miles, inside of half an hour. The tide was flowing up river at the time, at the rate of three or four miles an hour. After making due allowance foi every condition, it was proved that the salmon had coveted the -distance at the rate of about . twenty-eight miles an hour.—New York Sum.: j