86 ROD & CREEL 



THE CHEAKAMUS 



This river is a tributary of the Squamish and is reached 

 by boat from Vancouver to Squamish, then eight or nine miles 

 by train on the P.G.E., or by auto-stage on days when trains 

 are not running. Boats leave Vancouver from the Terminal 

 Steamship Company's wharf every day at 9:30, taking from 

 three to four hours to reach Squamish. Trains vary their days 

 considerably, but as a rule run every other .day. It is best to 

 enquire at the office. 



The station to get off at is called Cheeki, where there is 

 accommodation especially for fishermen, though it is of the 

 rough and read} 7 ' style, still you will get a hearty welcome and 

 any help you want. 



The Cheakamus is essentially a spinning river, as the water 

 nearly all comes from big glaciers, and except in early spring 

 and late fall, is seldom clear enough for a fly. It is most unfor- 

 tunate that this should be so, as it has every kind of fish run- 

 ning at some time or another. Dolly vardens all the year 

 round, steelheads all winter and spring until May, then cut- 

 throats and rainbows, and in July and August, spring salmon, 

 some of which go to very large size, and later on cohoes. 



For spinning for salmon this river cannot be beaten in July 

 and August, if you can only get the water clear enough. Dur- 

 ing very hot weather it is hopeless, but after a day or two of 

 cool weather it will drop quickly and clear enough for spinning, 

 and if you only have the luck to get there then, you are almost 

 certain to hook a fish or two if you can make any sort of a 

 decent cast. 



The ;best water in the Cheakamus is from where it runs 

 into the Squamish, where you fish in that river itself for about 

 five miles up stream, after that it is not much good until you 

 get up some distance above to falls in the neighbourhood of 

 Daisy Lake, where there is a settler who make a business of 

 putting fishermen up. 



On the upper waters there is sometimes good spinning for 

 Dolly Vardens and fair fly fishing for rainbow and cut-throat 

 trout in September, the water clearing quicker higher up. 

 Salmon and steelheads do not get up the falls, and if wanted, 

 must be fished for in the lower reaches. 



DAISY LAKE AND THE CLEARWATER 



Daisy Lake is about a mile from the P.G.E. A settler has 

 accommodation for a limited number. 



This lake has rainbow, cut-throat and dolly varden trout, 

 the first two afford excellent sport to the fly fisherman, as the 

 fish run to a fair size and will take more or less from early in 



