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a ten-days or a fortnight's fishing trip cannot do better than 

 pay this stream a visit any time after the first week in July. 



To get there you go to Hope and engage a man with pack 

 horses to take you in, unless you feel like doing thirty miles with 

 a pack on your back. There is no accommodation after you 

 leave Hope and you have to camp out. 



From Hope the trail follows up Nicolum Creek to the divide 

 at Lake House, a distance of fourteen miles. Small fish can be 

 caught here. You then strike Sumallow Creek, which is a 

 tributary of the Skagit, and follow it down for nine miles to 

 where it joins the main river. You can now begin to catch fish, 

 but they are not very big and you had better keep on going 

 down stream until you get within four or five miles of the 

 boundary line. Here you will catch fish on the fly of all sizes 

 up to three or four pounds in weight, more than you know what 

 to do with, unless you smoke them. If you care to try spin- 

 ning for a change, you will get some good big dolly vardens. 



There is seldom much choice of a fly but you had better 

 take some March Browns, Royal Coachman, Black Gnat, Teal 

 and Red and a Jock Scott or two. 



LIGHTNING LAKES 



These lakes are situated at an altitude of 3000 to 4000 feet, 

 on the divide between the Skagit and Roche Rivers. 



There are three or four of these lakes, the longest about a 

 mile and a half, in a valley about five miles long. To get to 

 them you would have to follow the Skagit trail (as already 

 described) to half a mile below the Whitworth Ranch and then 

 take the Sky trail to the east for half a day's travel up hill. 



These lakes are full of fish, both rainbows and cut-throats 

 running up to large size. Except by a few prospectors, they 

 have hardly been fished. There used to be one or two rafts 

 on the lakes, but if they are not to be found, there are plenty 

 of logs to build new ones with. 



Owing to the altitude these lakes are specially recom- 

 mended for those wanting a camping out trip in a fine bracing 

 climate, a complete change from the coast. 



The fishing is good from the middle of May to the middle 

 of August. 



For flies, any of the red bodied flies are good. 



COQUEHALLA LAKES 



These are small lakes about three-quarters of a mile long, 

 situated at the summit of the Cascade Range. The Kettle Valley 

 line passes along the shore of the lakes. You get off at the Sum- 

 mit station. There is no accommodation. 



