n8 Sporting Sketches 



possible to get a bit of sport on Long Island ; better 

 sport and more of it in the Adirondacks and some 

 parts of Pennsylvania and the best of all the North- 

 ern states in Maine. Beyond that are the many 

 Canadian waters of New Brunswick, Quebec, and 

 northern Ontario. These offer sport unsurpassed 

 amidst the wildest of romantically wild surroundings, 

 and there are leagues upon leagues of rare good 

 waters. 



The north shore of the St. Lawrence alone offers 

 ample scope for a life-long study of the brook trout 

 and its ways, and few indeed are the men who have 

 thoroughly tested the cold, swift streams of even the 

 one stretch of the north shore between Montreal 

 and Quebec, to say nothing of that region extending 

 from north of Quebec to and about Lake St. John. 

 Then there is the north shore of Superior, with its 

 storied Nepigon and its dozens of minor lakes and 

 streams, the latter short and fairly tumbling down 

 rock-bound steps to the huge ice-cold basin, which 

 floats no dead to its sternly hewed strand. 



Among the gleaming network of waters flung 

 over the country from Maine to Labrador, from 

 Atlantic tide-water to the snowy surf of the Great 

 Inland Sea, from the wonderful new country of the 

 upper Ottawa down to the longer-settled slopes of 

 the lower, one can find trout fishing unsurpassed in 

 the world and, perhaps, only rivalled by the cream 

 of the sport of the cloud-swept tarns and glacier- 

 born streams of the Rockies and neighboring 

 ranges. Thousands of miles of, trout waters in all, 

 and many of them practically unfished. Well might 

 the scientific angler devote his life to them. 



