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trout, rainbow trout, schwab fish, brook trout, lake trout, 

 etc. The scenery is lovely. While I was there, an Indian 

 speared on the Eagle River a lake trout which weighed 

 38 Ibs. It was forty-two inches in length. The sea trout 

 fishing in September is very good indeed, and the fish, which 

 run up to 6 Ibs. in weight, are excellent in their condition. 



Rainbow trout are very plentiful in these lakes. Salmon 

 are also plentiful, but when caught they are generally put 

 back. Their flesh is not to be compared with that of the 

 sea trout, the rainbow or grey trout. 



When trolling from a canoe on these lakes I caught salmon 

 up to 15 Ibs. in weight, which had travelled many hundreds 

 of miles, since leaving the sea, through the furious rapids 

 of the Fraser river, and through the equally wonderful gorges 

 of Kicking Horse Pass. Their appearance and condition 

 was excellent. They were evidently making for the Eagle 

 and other rivers which run into the Sicamous Lake. I 

 found " Muscabane " of the greatest use here, for the 

 mosquitoes, etc., are very troublesome.* 



SOME CANADIAN SALMON RECORDS. 



To give a better idea of the character of the salmon fishing 

 in Canada, I take the liberty of borrowing some records 

 given by the Hon. A. E. Gathorne-Hardy in his charming 

 contribution to the " Fur, Feather and Fin Series/' On 

 a portion of the Cascapedia River, fished by the Governor- 

 General of Canada, it appears that His Excellency, 

 the Marquis of Lansdowne, when Governor of Canada, 

 fishing during 1884, 1885, 1886 and 1887, an average 

 yearly season of fifty days, killed to his own rod in that 

 time 368 salmon, the total weight of these fish being 

 8,828 pounds, the fish thus averaging twenty-four pounds in 



* A new fly remedy recently prepared by Messrs. Allen & Hanburys, of 

 London. 



