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and restocking those that have been fished out. The Government should 

 assist those hatcheries as liberally as it does the Dairymen's Association or 

 the Bridges' Association. He thinks that every acre of those lakes properly 

 stocked will in a very short time be worth as much or more than our land 

 further south. Moira Eiver and Trent River are good rivers to stock, as 

 dog-fish, carp, and such fish cannot get up, there being no fish slides. There 

 are good pike in the Trent River west of Campbellford. In the Trent 

 River up to Campbellford there are bass, maskinonge, pickerel and pike; 

 west of Campbellford to Crow Bay, bass and maskinonge; west of Healey's 

 Falls there is fine bass and lunge fishing, and a good place to stop at Mr. Kel- 

 ler's with good boats and good board. From Mr. Keller's all the way to 

 Hice Lake there is good lunge and bass fishing. There is a good hotel at 

 Trent Bridge; it is about two miles from the C. P. R. station at Havelock. 

 There are good hotels at Hastings, and good men with boats can be had 

 there. Rice Lake can be reached from Peterboro or from Belleville by 

 the (t. T. R. Springbrook is about eight miles north of Stirling, where 

 there is good speckled trout fishing; it can be reached by the C. 0. R. from 

 Trenton. In Crow Lake there is fine bass and lunge fishing, good hotel 

 accommodation at Marmora, and a great many camps. C. 0. R. to Mar- 

 mora. In Salmon Lake, Devil Lake, and Deep Lake there is fine bass and 

 trout fishing. The fish weigh from six to twenty pounds. C. 0. R. to St. Ola 

 boarding house and camp. In Eagle or Coe Hill Lake there is very fine trout 

 fishing, some great catches being made there this year. The C. 0. R. goes 

 to Coe Hill, which is within a quarter of a mile of the lake. In Weslama- 

 coun Lake, and Little Weslamacoun there is fine trout fishing, but it is a 

 hard place to get into; it takes a day's hard work from Belleville to get 

 there. You go to L'Amable by C. 0. R., then by stage to those lakes, which 

 takes about eight hours. There is good trout fishing in Eagum Creek and 

 Bird's Creek. These creeks are about three or four miles from Bancroft. 

 Lake St. Peter, where there is the finest speckled trout fishing in the country, 

 is about twenty-three miles from Bancroft, to which you go by stage. There 

 are other lakes west of Maynooth, where there is fine trout fishing also. 

 In Papineau Creek and in Papineau Lakes there are fine lake trout. There 

 was one caught there this year that weighed 27 lbs. There is also fine* 

 fishing in Baptiste Lake, which is reached by the I. B. & 0. railway. There 

 is good bass fishing about three miles below Belleville in the Bay of Quinte, 

 and first-class hotel accommodation and lots of cottages to rent. There 

 is also good bass and lunge fishing near Northport, where there is good 

 hotel accommodation. 



Overseer McComber, Port Arthur, Lake Superior, reports that no cases 

 of infraction of the fishing laws were brought to his attention, and the law 

 seems to have been generally observed. No seizures were made for illegal 

 fishing. During the early part of the season the fishing was very good, 

 but it fell off considerably during the latter part; but on the whole the 

 amount of fish caught was equal to that of 1903. He calls the attention 

 of the Government to the great need of a fish hatchery at Port Arthur or 

 in its vicinity, and points to the fact there it not a single Canadian hatchery 

 on Lake Superior, while there are at least three on the American side. At 

 present the Booth Co., a United States corporation, collects spawn and dis- 

 tributes it every year, and to a certain extent does the work that should be 

 done by a hatchery. If it pays the company to do this for its own benefit 

 it would, no doubt, pay the Government to do it for the benefit of the Pro- 

 vince in general, and the fishermen in particular. Even if a hatchery is 

 not erected, he would recommend that, if possible, sturgeon be introduced 

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