Popular Fresh=Water Game Fish 



quitch, the Patapedia, and the Kedgwick. It flows 

 in u generally north-east direction and has in its 

 entire course no falls or rapids which a canoe can- 

 not surmount. 



The Restigouche Salmon Club has purchased a 

 large portion of the best angling on the river, and 

 the rod fishing yields about twelve hundred salmon 

 and grilse yearly, which is far below its probable 

 production if netting were not so prevalent. For 

 this reason, the average size of the fish is dimin- 

 ishing. On the other side of the Bay of Chaleurs 

 is the Grand Bonaventure and the famous Grand 

 Cascapedia — both full of large fish, some being 

 taken of over fifty pounds; but the average is 

 probably twenty-five pounds. 



Only eight fish per day are allowed to be taken 

 by one rod. The St. Anne des Monts is another 

 good river of the north shore, where fish run large. 

 The Grand, Dartmouth, and others in 

 Salmon^ the Gaspe district are good, and the fish 

 are of fair average size, with some large 

 ones. The Godbout, on the St. Lawrence, is a 

 remarkable river — a catch of fifteen to twenty 

 salmon to one rod in a day is not unusual. The 

 fish are small in the Godbout (but so is the river, 

 which is very broken), and fished almost, if not 

 entirely, from the shore. In 1901, three rods 

 took in twelve days two hundred and seventeen 

 salmon. 



The Moisie and the Mingan, farther down, are 

 good, and the fish large, averaging over twenty- 

 two pounds. The Natashquan is a good-sized 

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