76 STREAMS OF NEWFOUNDLAND 



wander into some sequestered meadow through which a still brook 

 glides noiselessly, fringed with a dense mass of shrubbery, he is 

 very likely to startle a caribou hind with her April fawn, or a stag 

 carefully nursing the soft, gelatinous, velvet-covered sprouts pre- 

 sently to develop into forms of beauty coveted by the hunter. 



There is no country so near England at the present hour which 

 offers so many attractions to the sportsman as Newfoundland. As 

 the price of good or even indifferent salmon fishing in the old country 

 and Norway becomes year by year more prohibitive, it is necessary 

 for the disciple of Walton to seek out new fields, or rather streams, 

 where it is possible to indulge in his favourite pastime at a reason- 

 able cost. Some already have done so, but there is plenty of room 

 for very many more. Superb sea-trout fishing is only a question of 

 being on the right water at the right time. 



Newfoundland is no bad substitute for Norway. The beauty of 

 the bold and deeply indented coast ; the excellence of the fishing 

 amid the wild solitudes ; the countless number of lakes and streams 

 by which the island is watered all conspire to make of Newfound- 

 land a veritable paradise of the angler for trout and salmon. 



* Fisherman's luck ' depends largely upon finding the water in 

 proper condition. A heavy spate is quite as unfavourable as ver} low 

 water, which now and then occurs during the fishing season, and mars 

 for the time being all chance of good sport. After salmon have 

 remained for some length of time in fresh water, they rise tardily or 

 refuse altogether in Newfoundland as everywhere else. 



