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with trout, affords excellent sport to the visitor at Tadoussac. 

 The Ste. Marguerite,which is one of the chief tributaries of the 

 Saguenay, and can be reached in a boat after a few hours' 

 pull from Tadoussac, abounds with fish, and if the tourist 

 desires remaining on its banks for a few days, he can get 

 accommodation (rough but clean), at the little hamlet of Ste. 

 Marguerite. Another river which affords good fishing in this 

 region is the Esquemain, which empties into the St. Law- 

 rence about twenty miles east of the Saguenay. It is a cold, 

 clear, and rapid stream, abounding in rapids and deep pools, 

 and although there is a saw mill at its mouth, (the enemy of 

 the salmon,) yet its water- works are so arranged as not to 

 interfere with the running of the salmon. The best spot here 

 is at the foot of the fall, which forms a sheet of foam, about one 

 mile above its mouth. Up the stream, owing to its bushy 

 shores, you must fish standing on boulders in the water, and 

 after hooking a fish plunge into the current, which is not 

 deep, and trust to fortune. But the sport these waters 

 afford is more than counterbalanced by the black fly and 

 musquito which swarm here. To ward off their attacks, we 

 would recommend the fisherman to hang a gauze veil over 

 his neck and face, or carry with him some oil of rosemary, 

 which is a sure preventive to the bites of these merciless 

 marauders. The mouth of the Saguenay itself is hemmed in 

 with barriers of solid rock, and when the tide is flowing in, 

 first-rate sport may be obtained from one of these points ; 

 but we must warn the stranger to be carefully on his guard, 

 lest, engrossed with his rod and fly, the incoming tide, which 

 rises very suddenly, surrounds the rock on which he stands, 

 and he be necessitated to swim through the cold and turbu- 

 lent current till he reach the main shore. Next to the salmon, 

 the finest game fish here are trout, which are taken in both 

 the fresh and salt water, and possess a flavor which the fish of 

 the western rivers and lakes do not possess. They run from 

 two to fifteen pounds in weight in the Lower St. Lawrence 



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