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each and some of them weighed sixteen pounds. In 1 858 

 on the same shoals, an Equirico Indian in one day 

 caught 250 trout of about the same weight. In Octo- 

 ber 1859, E. Bonchier, of Vails Point, in two hours 

 caught 58 trout; and on the 2yth of the same month, 

 among the islands at the entrance to Georgean Bay, 

 Indians and half-breeds were catohing with trolling 

 lines two or three barrels per day. * 



Professor Hind in his account of the Exploring 

 Expedition into Labrador in 1 86 1, represents the trout 

 fishing there also as splendid, and states that in the 

 great lakes of the table land of Labrador immense 

 trout are found often sixty pounds in weight, f These 

 great fish, he says, are constantly taken by the Indians 

 in winter, who catch them from under the ice, which 

 is not unfrequently five or six feet thick, and during 

 the summer months fine crimson spotted trout of medium 

 size, leap " wildly at a gaudy fly, " of which kind the 

 Professor's party caught 120 in one evening on Cold 

 Water River. Indeed the streams and lakes of 

 Labrador seem to be full of them, and since the time 

 when these great takes of fish are recorded, there is 

 little probability that the fishing has materially fallen 

 off, as the extent of water is so enormous and the 

 settlement of the country in these districts has hardly 

 yet begun. Mosquitoes however are very bad there. 



Along the track of the Canadian Pacific Railway 

 also splendid fishing, according to Mr. Caine, M.P., 

 can be easily obtained still, both in the streams that 

 run into Lake Superior and in Manitoba. The beauti- 



* See Professor H. G. Hind's Travels in Labrador, 1863, Vol. i, 

 pp. 2678. 



f Ibid., Vol. i, p. 107. 

 Ibid., Vol. i, p. 143. 



