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CHAPTER XVIII. 

 ALONG THE LINE OF THE P. G. E. RAILWAY 



THIS line at the present time (May, 1919) is only open for 

 traffic from Squamish at the head of Howe Sound, as far 



as Clinton. 



For nearly the whole of this distance the line passes within 

 view of some stream or lake, and all these waters have trout 

 and salmon in them. One great advantage this line has is that 

 while some of the streams may be unfishable on account of ice in 

 winter or freshets in summer, there is always, from year's end 

 to year's end, some water where fish may be caught. During 

 the whole of the winter land-locked steelheads can be caught 

 in Seat on Lake; in early spring you have the Cheakamus for 

 steelheads and dolly vardons, while all summer there are Daisy, 

 Alta and four or five more lakes which are unaffected by fresh- 

 ets, and in which fish can be caught from the time the ice goes 

 out until it comes again in winter. 



THE MANQUAIN RIVER 



This is quite a small stream running into Howe Sound 

 right at the head of this Inlet. It can be fished from Squamish, 

 where there is an hotel. It is a pretty little stream up which a 

 man with waders can make his way easily except at high water 

 time. 



Dolly vardens run up it in the spring and there is often a 

 nice bit of fly fishing to be had in early July. 



THE SQUAMISH 



This is quite a big river and very much affected by freshets. 

 There is no water near the mouth that is ever worth fishing. 



In early spring, before the freshets commence, some mag- 

 nificent spinning can be had by going about twenty miles up. 

 You will catch magnificent dolly vardens running from three 

 to ten pounds, with an occasional steelhead. In the late fall 

 there are plenty of other trout, but they will seldom take a fly, 

 and bait or a small spinner is the only thing to use. There 

 is no hotel, but one of the settlers makes a business of putting 

 people up. 



