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and gulf of St. Lawrence if obstructions and sawdust were 

 removed. Malbaie is a nice-looking stream, which salmon 

 have access to, but it has been poached to death. It is 

 unleased. Big and Little Pabos are also unleased ; they 

 are offered by the Government on five years' lease, at 

 respectively $200 and $100. They are both rivers that, 

 if properly looked after, would no doubt afford good sport, 

 but they have never as yet been taken in hand. Grand 

 river is a good stream ; salmon plentiful, averaging about 

 12 or 13 Ibs. ; it is leased up to the year 1878, at a yearly 

 rent of $200. The angling season for all these rivers on 

 the south shore is from the 10th June to the 15th July ; 

 of course this is only approximate, because seasons vary 

 according to the melting of the snow in the Shick Shock 

 mountains. After the middle of July most of these rivers 

 run very fine, and salmon fishing is then uncertain, though 

 sea trout and grilse never fail. 



The rivers flowing into the Bay of Chaleur are among 

 the best in the Dominion. The Bonaventure is a nice 

 stream, which is leased up to the year 1880 at a yearly 

 rent of $20. Two rods have killed sixty fish in ten 

 days' fishing here, averaging about 14 Ibs., which is con- 

 sidered small for the Bay of Chaleur. The Little Casca- 

 pedia is let up to the year 1878 for $300 per annum. 

 Salmon were until quite recently shut out of this stream 

 by a timber jam, but naturally it is an excellent salmon 

 river. Fish average about 16 or 17 Ibs. The Grand 

 Cascapedia is celebrated for the immense size of its fish. 

 This is a large and very rapid stream ; its water not so 

 clear as most Canadian rivers, owing to a branch that 

 flows out of a large lake, round which are peaty barrens, 



