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ful stream Kaministiqua, for instance, is stated to be 

 "a river which makes an angler's heart ache with 

 envy as he views from the train its almost virgin 

 stream." "At one of the lovely stopping places I 

 asked the station master if he ever fished the river. 

 ' Occasionally/ was the reply and he added, ' I could 

 catch as many trout as I could catch grasshoppers 

 for bait. I suppose I could bring home 150 or 200 

 in a good day's fishing, weighing about 120 Ibs,' and 

 the general appearance of this stream, Mr. Caine assures 

 us, makes this statement quite credible. " * 



Nevertheless, Mr. Caine, on whose authority the 

 foregoing statement is given, in common with all 

 anglers, sometimes found the fishing disappointing. 

 On the Bow River, a celebrated fishing station, for 

 instance, he tells us, " I tried every fly in my book, 

 but could catch nothing. A youth that came along 

 informed me that ' It was no use trying them things, 

 guv'nor, you try a bit of beef. ' The fly, as all ex- 

 perienced travellers are well aware, does not do well 

 everywhere; natural baits, bits of meat, and above 

 all, the spoon, often do infinitely better than any fly, 

 and Mr. Caine goes on to say that he 



" heard of wonderful fish being caught in Devil's Head Lake, 

 ten miles from Banff, and saw a man who had caught seventy- 

 seven trout there weighing 220 Ibs" (showing an average 

 weight of about three Ibs. each) "in a single day, trolling 

 with a couple of hand-lines and spoon bait. One trout 

 weighing forty-three Ibs. was caught there last year with a 

 piece of beef. But a young Englishman rode over during 

 our visit and did his best, but never saw a fish of any kind." f 



* A Trip Round, the World in 18878, by W. S. Caine, M.P., p. 42 

 t Ibid., p. 76. 



