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arrangements could be made for telegrams to be telephoned out. 



To get to the lake you can engage a motor at Kamloops, 

 sometimes Mr. Cowan can arrange to meet you and drive out 

 with his team. The road is quite good and a motor will take 

 you out there in one and a half hours; but if you are not 

 pressed for time and wish to thoroughly enjoy the beauties of 

 the road, first away up over the bunch grass hills where the 

 cattle range and later through the jack pine forest, the home 

 of the mule deer and blue grouse, I'd advise the trip at least 

 one way with horses. 



The fish to be caught are principally the rainbow variety, 

 with an occasional cut-throat. Their size varies from any 

 weight up to three and a half pounds, the record being some- 

 where about five pounds. As a general thing, when fish are 

 taking well, you can put back anything that is not well over 

 one pound and still get your limit of twenty fish in a day, i.e., 

 if you are anything of a fisherman and take the trouble to find 

 out what sort of fly the best fish are taking. The Montreal is 

 the most commonly used fly and with it you can be fairly cer- 

 tain of fish of a certain size, but for big fish it is by no means 

 certain. The March Brown (male) is one of the best, though 

 the best fish I have ever seen taken out of the lake were caught 

 on a Bumble Bee, whether it is often a good taker is doubtful. 

 Sometimes a medium-sized Jock Scott will do good work, at 

 others nothing but the tiniest of black gnats will tempt the 

 heavy fish. Other flies that sometimes take well are the Blue 

 and Silver Doctor, Teal and Red and Black Hackle. 



There are two lakes connected by a short stream, the biggest 

 in which the best fishing is, is about one and a half to two miles 

 long. It is of moderate depth, with shallows more or less all 

 along the edge. As a rule the best water is on the edge of a 

 shallow, though sometimes the fish lie in the shallow water on 

 the edge of the reeds. 



For lake fish they are unequalled as sporting fish, making 

 jump after jump and dashing w r ildly in different directions so 

 that at times a slack line is unavoidable, and with numbers of 

 other fish rising in close proximity to your boat, as often hap- 

 pens, you sometimes get confused as to the whereabouts of your 

 fish. 



Most years the fish are not in condition to catch until well 

 on in June. July is the most certain month. In August the 

 water gets too hot but by September there is generally cool 

 weather and good fishing again the whole of that month. 



In fishing these lakes the early morning and evening are 

 seldom any good, the best fishing often is during the middle of 

 the day. "When there is a hatch of black gnats it generally 

 starts about 11 o'clock. It is a splendid place for lazy men 

 and not to be beaten for a novice to learn to catch fish. 



