They Threw Back 14-Pounders

Three Dartmouth fishermen, and one from Yale, woke up from dreaming about the world's most ideal fishing spots and decided to go find some of them. Last summer Sidney C. Hayward '26, Secretary of the College; Paul Sample '20, Dartmouth's Artist-in-Residence; Dr. Erwin Miller '20 and Robert Stoddard, Yale '28 —the two latter from Worcester—took off for Newfoundland and Labrador to try their luck in salmon pools which had seldom, if ever, been fished before.

Via Trans-Qanada Air Lines, Sample and Hayward flew from Boston to Gander, where they met their Worcester companions. Taking a chartered plane to Pert Saunders, the four boarded a 50-foot cabin boat—their home for ten days—which brought them within reach of the remotest of fishing places on the East, Torrent, and Costors Rivers in Newfoundland; and Pinware and Fortu Rivers in Labradcr. The fish bit beyond the anglers' wildest imaginings. Although they ate fish three times a day, they still tossed back salmon up to 14 pounds and "barrels of trout."

In fact if the members of the expedition had not planned a definite program of work to accomplish, the trip might have become a Midas-like fantasy with every wish immediately turned into lish. However, each of the four had a project. Paul Sample at the trip's end had three sketchbooks filled with color notes for oils and watercolors to be painted later, some for illustrating an article to appear in Fieldand Stream, the copy for which Sid Hayward assembled. Dr. Miller assisted and observed at two Grenfell Missions, holding his own clinic when inhabitants heard that he could help them; and Mr. Stoddard, who acted as photographer for the trip, is still being asked to show his movies to groups in Worcester and Boston.

THE FISHING PARTY at River Ponds, Newfoundland, includes (I to r) Robert W. Stoddard, Yale '28; Dr. frwin C. Miller '20 of Worcester; Sidney C. Hayward '26 and Paul Sample '20, delegates from the College.