Fish and Fishing 



stream full of small fish, from eight to twelve 

 pounds. This river marks about the eastern limit 

 of the rivers which are at all well known. The 

 Esquimaux River, in the Strait of Belle Isle, is 

 probably the greatest known salmon river. It is 

 very large and long, without heavy falls to pre- 

 vent the salmon from ascending to its upper 

 waters. 



The vast, practically unexplored region north 

 of the Strait of Belle Isle extending up to Davis 

 Strait and to the West — including a thousand 

 miles of shore line of Hudson Bay — is undoubtedly 

 full of salmon rivers, where a fly has never been 

 cast. There are vague rumors of enormous quan- 

 tities of salmon in the rivers just north of the Strait 

 of Belle Isle — the Hamilton being especially 

 spoken of. 



At the present rate of destruction, those wanting 

 good salmon fishing are cjuite likely to have to 

 look as far as these remote regions for it, in the 

 next twenty-five years. What good fishing there is 

 close at hand is hard to get and very expensive. 



Of the Pacific salmons, the quinnat salmon is 

 the largest and most prized. It is known under 

 various names, such as the chinook, tyee, king 

 salmon, Columbia River, and Sacramento Salmon. 

 It ranges from Monterey, California, to Alaska 

 and eastern Asia, ascending rivers in some cases 

 fifteen hundred miles, or farther, from the sea. 

 It is the largest of the salmon family — individuals 

 weighing one hundred pounds, and upward of five 

 feet in length, being on record, taken from the 



