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united with comfortable accommodation. At the 

 Sault St. Marie, at Marque tte, at Grand Island, and 

 at Bayfield public-houses are to be found, and so 

 plentiful a supply of fine fish that the heart of man 

 cannot fail to be satisfied ; but the finest sport is to 

 be realized along the Canadian shore, where camp- 

 ing-out is a necessity ; for while on the southern 

 coast the trout average a pound, on the northern 

 they will run fully two pounds in weight. 



Near civilization game and fish are sure to be 

 scarce and shy. There are trout to be caught in 

 the Sault, but on account of the depth of water, bait 

 is apt to kill the largest. So in the vicinity of the 

 other cities, the angler can visit them all in a sum- 

 mer, but if he can spare the time, and is not prepared 

 to roam through the large, and perhaps dangerous 

 lake, he ought by all means to go to the Neepigon, 

 as he can now do without difficulty, and take his 

 share of the innumerable and enormous fish which 

 are to be had there. He may not catch any over 

 five pounds in weight, but ho is sure to take as 

 many as he wants, while the scenery alone would 

 more than repay a trip. 



A few miles below the Sault the Garden River 

 affords good sport and fair-sized trout, but is a diffi- 

 cult stream to ascend, while the first promontory 

 on the southern shore of the lake, called White Fish 

 Point, has long been famous as a fishing-station. 

 At Marquette, which is a regular stopping-place for 

 the steamers that traverse the lake, the waters are 

 somewhat fished out ; but about thirty miles to the 

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