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their appearance in the harbour in chace of 

 shoals of herrings. The usual way to take salmon 

 in these waters is to troll with a spoon bait, 

 veered about sixty to eighty yards astern of 

 the boat; the pace should not exceed two or 

 three miles an hour; the best time is about 

 daybreak, and again at sundown. The Indians 

 use a herring bait, and they bend the line on to 

 their paddle, which communicates a twist to the 

 bait at every stroke ; for herrings they use an 

 iron rake, which they plunge into the shoal, and 

 literally rake the fish into the canoe. There 

 is capital sea-trout fishing at the mouths of 

 the lagoons, with fly ; the fish take best at the 

 turn of the tide, and good trout may also be 

 taken in any of the numerous lakes in the island. 

 Grouse-shooting commenced on the 1st of 

 August, but long before that date the popping 

 of guns might be heard in the woods round 

 about Esquimalt; the midshipmen of course 

 had the credit of this, and probably they were 

 not altogether guiltless, but most of it was due 

 to the Indian pot-hunters, who armed with an 



