102 NEW BE UNS WICK. 



There is very good angling hi New Brunswick. I have 

 made mention of the salmon rivers elsewhere. All the 

 rivers that run into the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the 

 many hundreds of lakes which dot over the province are 

 full of trout. There is, I believe, one species of trout 

 peculiar to New Brunswick and the contiguous State of 

 Maine. I allude to the "lake shiner" (8. Gloverii), a very 

 beautiful and sporting fish, as like as possible in size, 

 shape, and colour to a grilse, and also, in its mode of 

 taking the fly and jumping out of water when hooked. 

 There is a chain of large lakes on the St. Croix river, in 

 which shiners are very plentiful. They are also caught in 

 the Schoodic lakes, in Skiff lake near the St. John river> 

 and in several other lakes in that locality. They rise very 

 freely towards the latter end of May and beginning of 

 June at any sea trout or grilse fly, and the season being 

 so early does not interfere with salmon fishing. On Grand 

 Lake in the beginning of June there is often a little 

 canvas town inhabited by anglers. It is a very accessible 

 place for Americans, and consequently the shiner fishing 

 is in danger of being overdone. 



A very fine fish that runs up some of the largest of the 

 New Brunswick rivers, such as the St. John and the 

 Miramichi, is the striped bass (Roccus Lineatus). Bass run 

 up the St. John rather earlier than salmon, viz. about the 

 beginning of June. They take a bait freely, and I have 

 heard instances of their having risen at the fly. Bass 

 spearing in the St. John is capital sport. At the extreme 

 head of the tide on that river, a few miles above Fredericton, 

 on the fine June evenings dozens of bark canoes may be 

 seen darting about the broad surface of the river. They 



