That summer there were three salmon collectors which came to Murray's Harbour to collect salmon. There was Bay Roberts Fisheries from Fox Harbour. There was Earle's Freighting Service of Battle Harbour and there was another collector called Kain. Kain was the man's last name. I don't remember his first name. Kain had a long liner and would go around the coast collecting salmon. He would bring the salmon to William's Harbour and ship them out on coastal boats. Kain paid the best price for the salmon, so he got a good share of the salmon that was caught in Murray's Harbour. The fishermen also had to sell to the other two companies because they had been doing business with them for years and some fisherman owed those companies money. I remember we used to bring out speedboat loads of salmon to his long liner and so did other fishermen.

Kain would pay us every week for the salmon which he bought. Then as the summer wore on he did not pay us at all. We did not think much of it at the time and figured he would straighten up with us in the fall. That was what the other collectors did in those days. I remember one day Kain came in his long liner and he had it filled with food. He owed some people a lot of money and he was planning to pay the fisherman in food. Some people took a lot of food, but I did not take very much. I remember taking 2 cases of cheeses, 2 cases of chips, a couple of cases of drink and some rough grub like bulk sugar, flour and molasses. The food I took did not come close to paying me for all the salmon I had sold Kain.

The summer passed and we still did not get paid by Kain. Then there was rumours floating around that old Kain had gone bankrupt. Kain still owed me and a lot of other fisherman a good bit of money. That winter I got a cheque from Kain. It was not much. He only gave me a small percent of what he owed. If I had known that Kain was bankrupt that day he came to Murray's Harbour with a load of food I would have taken a lot more food than I did. I was a out nice bit of money, but there was nothing I could do about that. When I think back on that summer I will not remember the money 1 lost, but the fun and excitement I had in catching all of those salmon. Those days are gone now and the government has taken away our right to catch salmon but they can never take away my memories of those days.

One summer when I was a young man, my father Earl Poole, my sister Shirley Poole and myself went out jigging. We were fishing out of Murray's Harbour at the time. The forecast had called for a storm and so we hadn't planned on going out jigging. That day Dad said, "Let's go out and have a couple of tries with the jigger. We'll be back before the storm hits." He didn't have to ask me twice. So we jumped aboard the motorboat and took off. We were the only crew out on the water that day. Everybody else was tied up to their wharves.

We headed straight for Spear Point. That was always a good place to jig fish and you usually caught nice fish there. When we got to Spear Point we threw out our jiggers and started jigging. We were there about fifteen minutes and we had not caught a single fish. We were just about ready to pull up our jiggers and go home when Shirley got one. It was a beauty of a fish. The next thing I know I had one on and then Dad caught one.