CHAPTER XIII. 



THE ANGLES. 



I THINK I may assert, without fear of contradiction, that 

 the angling in Canada is the finest in the world. Many 

 thousands of trout streams and some hundreds of salmon 

 rivers discharge their waters into the gulf and river 

 St. Lawrence. From Lake Ontario down to the straits of 

 Belle-Isle a distance of nearly 2000 miles on each shore 

 of the river there is hardly a mile of coast-line without a 

 river or stream. Thousands and thousands of lakes, all of 

 which hold trout, lie hidden away in the forest; in the 

 majority of them perhaps a fly has never been cast. 

 Above Quebec most of the rivers have been spoiled for 

 salmon. 



Lumbering is the great business of Canada, and al- 

 though there is really nothing to prevent lumbering and 

 fishing being carried on together as a very little sacrifice 

 indeed on the part of the lumber merchant, and a few 

 simple and inexpensive precautions, would enable him to 

 carry on his business on any river with a minimum of 

 damage to the fish yet in this, as in many other 

 matters, the lesser interest is sacrificed to the greater, 

 and salmon are driven away from most of the great 

 lumber rivers. 



Trout fishing on hundreds, I may say on thousands, of 

 charming rivers and lakes is open to everyone ; and 



