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GAME AND FISH RESORTS. 



or parts, each part permitting the use of a given number of rods, 

 usually four. Parties who desire to lease a Canadian river should 

 address a letter to the Minister of Marine and Fisheries, at Ottawa, 

 stating how many rods they have, and the district which they pre- 

 fer to tish. He will forward them a list of the leasable rivers, and 

 a note of information, upon which they should get some Canadian 

 to make the tender for them. The leases of tiuvial parts of rivers 

 vary from two to six hundred dollars a year for from three to eight 

 rods, and the price for guides or gaffers is a dollar a day." — 

 Genio C. 'siZoW.'?, Fishing in American Waters. 



District of A^lgoma— 



Michipicoton Island^ in Lake Superior, is in summer a stopping place for the 

 Collingvvood steamers. Large trout are caught in the adjacent waters. Sup- 

 plies may be obtained at Michipicon River, which is a Hudson Bay Company's 

 Depot. 



Sault Stc. Marie. The streams flowing into the St. Mary's River, Garden 

 River, Root River, and Hay Lake and its outlet afford excellent trout fishing and 

 the last named good duck shooting. Along the north shore there are several 

 well known trouting localities, distant from fifteen to forty miles. Indian guides, 

 canoes, etc., are to be had for all these places. Gaulais Bay, Batcheevvanaung 

 Bay and River, Harmony, Montreal and Agnawa Rivers. The route to Sault Ste. 

 Marie is via steamer from Collingwood, Ont., or from Buffalo, Cleveland, De- 

 troit, Chicago or Milwaukee. Good hotels on either side of the river. (See 

 Michigan.) 



The Nepigon River. The river is forty-five miles long to the great Nepigon 

 Lake at its head, and is broken by fifteen chutes or falls, at all of which is the best 

 of fishing. It has an average width of two hundred yards, and at frequent inter- 

 vals widens into lakes two miles and more in width, in which the whitefish and 

 the great lake trout dwell. Camping ground is excellent everywhere, and there 

 is a beaten trail across the portages, over portions of which a wagon might pass 

 with ease ; for this has long been a thoroughfare for the Company's employees, 

 who, once a year at least, bring down their furs and carry back their annual sup- 

 plies to Nepigon House above. There is ample casting room throughout. The 

 depth varies from twenty to two hundred and fifty feet, and the water is so cold 

 at all times as to benumb the limbs. Its temperature is about 38°. In September 

 partridges (ruffed grouse) are very plenty and the forests abound in bears, rab- 

 bits, and other fur-bearing animals and small game. There are a few caribou, 

 but no deer nor any other species of the genus Cervus. Trout, pike, pickerel, 

 salmon trout, and whitefish in greatest possible abundance. By August the flies 

 and punkies disappear and the trout become fat and gamy ; for they spawn later 

 here than in most other localities. The Nepigon is reached via steamer from 

 Toronto, Ont, or Duluth, Minnesota, to Red Rock Landing at the mouth of the 

 river. 



From Toronto there is a choice of routes either to Collingwood or Sarnia, 

 whence good boats run to Sault Ste. Marie, and from there, the first to the north 

 shore of Lake Superior, and the other to the south shore, touching at Marquette 

 and other points, and on to Duluth. The North Shore steamers connect at Prince 

 Arthur's Landing with other boats for Duluth, one hundred and forty miles dis- 

 tant. A favorite route for Americans is from Buffalo via Lake Erie to Detroit, 

 and thence through Lake Huron to Sault Ste. Marie. Residents of States west 

 and north of New York, will naturally make Detroit their objective starting point. 

 A round trip ticket via the Collingwood route, costs thirty-five dollars gold, 

 which includes meals and stateroom. The fare from New York City via rail, to 

 Niagara Falls, thence boat to Toronto, is eleven dollars fifty cents ; so that the 

 cost of the entire trip from New York and return is about sixty-five dollars cur- 

 rency. The actual running time of the trip occupies ten days. 



AV.r^7?o.:/& is a Hudson's Bay Company Post, where the sportsman will find 

 excellent accommodations with Robert Crawford, the agent. From him must 

 be procured the necessary fishing permits, without which no angler can fish in 

 the Nepigon. He will furnish almost everything requisite for camping out ; 

 cedar boats, and birch canoes, tents, blankets, woolen shirts, Hudson's Bay over- 



