610 AMERICAN ANGLER'S BOOK. 



send the journal kept by the party who fished it in 1863, which is at 

 your service, if you think it worth your while to copy or even read. I 

 am lessee of this river. 



Natashquan. — Is a capital river, but it is very distant. I do not know 

 any one who has fished it. 



St. Margaret (in the Saguenay), is a fair Salmon river, afibrding 

 moderate sport for two or three rods. It is over-fished. 



La Val is fully described in " Barnwell's" book. I visited it last year 

 It is an excellent Trout river, and afibrds Salmon which are, however, 

 shy as flyers. 



Jaques Cartier is a good Salmon river, but it is not a Crown river — it is 

 owned by the landowners on its banks. 



Trinity, St. Margaret {en has), Bersimis, Romaine. — I believe that 



all of these rivers are leased by the Crown, for terms varying from one 



to nine years. 



Write me the kind of information you want, and the rivers you wish 

 it of, and I will see what I can do when I am less occupied than I am 

 to-day. 



I sent you a report yesterday. I also wrote to my friend, Mr. W. F. 

 Whitcher, ||^ send you such as he had duplicates of. Mr. W. is at the 

 head of our fisheries, and knows more of the Salmon rivers of 'Canada 

 than any man I know of in the Province. 



In 1862, Messrs. Williams and Bacon killed 318 Salmon, with fly, in the 

 Moisie ; during the same season the lessee of the net-fishing killed 

 18,000 (! !) fish in the estuary of the river. 



From the newspaper slip enclosed you will note that during the 

 season 1863, there was killed in the 



St. John, 4 fish per rod per day. 

 Moisie, 3 " " " 



Mingan, If " '* " 



Goodbout, li " 



Enough for the present. 



Most truly yours, 



D. A. P. Watt. 



