FISHING IN AMERICAN WATERS. 



minion to make the tender for them. If necessary, on appli- 

 cation, I will name a suitable person at the seat of govern 

 ment to whom they may apply with confidence. 



The course which I recommend to gentlemen of the States 

 is pursued by sportsmen of Canada. The prices for the flu- 

 vial parts of rivers are very modest. I belonged to a party 

 of four anglers who hired the whole of the fluvial part of a 

 first-class river for three hundred dollars for a single season. 

 The leases of fluvial parts of rivers vary from two to six hun- 

 dred dollars a year for from three to eight rods; and the 

 price for guides or gaffers is a dollar a day. Canoes and pro- 

 visions are cheap there ; a first-rate canoe may be purchased 

 for from twelve to fifteen dollars ; and as for desiccated meats 

 and canned vegetables, with potatoes and eggs, also wines 

 and diffusible stimulants, they do not cost more than half the 

 sum demanded for them in the States. Then, as an econom- 

 ical summer trip of a month or six weeks, the cost is less than 

 the expense of staying at a watering-place hotel, which is 

 similar to a city hotel minus its comforts. If the lovers of 

 field-sports in the United States can but be induced to try 

 salmon-fishing, it will not be long before the rivers in the 

 States will teem with the silver beauties. I have before me 

 a score of five weeks' fishing in the Godbout lor four rods. 

 The total count was 279 salmon, weighing 3116 pounds, or the 

 average weight of each fish 11^ pounds. They did not aver- 

 age the use of more than three rods daily, or more than five 

 days each week. I have seen larger takes, but this is a high 

 score for salmon-fishing in any part of the world. 



As I have stated, an application to hire the fluvial or an- 

 gling part of a salmon-river from the government of the Do- 

 minion is to be for the term of nine years, and the prices of 

 the rivers must necessarily advance as anglers multiply in 

 numbers and America increases in wealth ; for salmon-fish- 

 ing, on the list of recreations which most deeply interest cul- 

 tivated men, is esteemed a high art. 



