FISHING IN CANADA 399 



over it by the skilful angler that the latter never feels certain 

 that the fight will end in his favour. 



The favourite abode of the black bass is in cold and rapid 

 water with gravel or rocky bottom. Its food consists 

 mainly of minnows, frogs, crawfish and insects. This fish 

 may be caught with the fly, bait or spoon, but no angler 

 can ever tell for a certainty just what bait will at any 

 moment prove best with black bass. 



This fish is found in abundance in New Brunswick and 

 also in Nova Scotia, Quebec has a great many good fishing 

 places for bass, among which are the lakes and streams of 

 the Ottawa river and its tributaries, up the Gatineau river, 

 and in the lakes near the terminus of the Maniwaka branch 

 of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Brome Lake, reached 

 from Knowlton, Quebec, contains large black bass and 

 plenty of them. Ontario has hundreds of places where 

 good bass fishing may be enjoyed. 



Sporting trips in Canada are of necessity somewhat 

 extended, and therefore require careful consideration 

 and preparation. The outfits necessary for such trips 

 are varied in their composition, and the agencies which 

 supply the necessary men, stores, canoes, or other means 

 of locomotion, even when advance notice of such a trip be 

 given to them, have at times a considerable difficulty in 

 executing their instructions. 



The canoe, which is peculiarly the water-craft of Canada, 

 is the one great masterpiece which the Indian has handed 

 down to civilization. There is no other form of boat so 

 graceful, so responsive to the lightest touch, so easy of pro- 

 pulsion, or so universally adaptable. It may be said to 

 be essentially a product of its environment. The shallow- 

 ness of its draught makes it the ideal craft for the swift- 

 flowing Canadian streams, with their numerous shallows and 

 rapids. It is in itself so light that it can easily be carried 



