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season for speckled trout, it being required of such pass holder to have 

 his license endorsed with the periods of his stay on the occasion of each 

 visit. The cost of the license to cover four successive weeks of anjrlina 

 in the reserve is at present |10.00, so that by instituting a season pass as 

 suggested the percentage of charge to the number of days of presump- 

 tive angling as at present existing would not be materially affected. 

 It would seem certain, in fact, that if the suggested amendments in 

 regard to the scale of licenses for residents of Canada are carried into 

 effect, not only will they prove a great convenience to many, but also 

 should act in the direction of increasing the revenue from this source, 

 seeing that there would no longer be any possible excuse for laxity in 

 the collection of the monies due to the Government. It is to be noted in 

 this regard that there is vested in the proper quarters authority to grant 

 a limited number of complimentary licenses, and doubtless this power 

 is wisely administered, so that if such licenses are not obtainable by 

 certain gentlemen of local or political prominence, they should be 

 required to take out the regular license like any ordinary citizen, and 

 not be allowed, as has too frequently been the case of late, to angle in 

 these waters without a license of any description whatsoever. In regard 

 to the non-resident licenses as at present existing, it would appear that 

 it is deemed both reasonable and just by the majority of visitors that 

 additional fees should be charged them and that the present scale is 

 equitable. 



There can be little doubt but that one of the main causes which led 

 to the introduction of a special angling license for the Nipigon Reserve 

 was the desire to conserve the brook trout fisheries of this region. There 

 are naturally many other varieties of fish in these waters which are cap- 

 able of affording sport to anglers, such as the lake trout, pickerel and 

 pike in Lake Nipigon and River Nipigon, and the latter two in all prob- 

 ability in most of the other streams of the district also, while there is 

 at least one instance in the reserve of a eomparatively isolated lake well 

 stocked with black bass. As the regulation reads at present the license 

 fee is charged for " fishing in Nipigon River, Nipigon Lake and adjacent 

 waters," so that it is apparent under the law as it stands there is no dis- 

 tinction in regard to the class of fish angled for. There can be little 

 doubt that this is a reasonable precaution, for over a great deal of these 

 waters, most particularly in the River Nipigon and other streams, it is 

 without the power of the angler when trolling or bait casting to decide 

 on what fish he will catch, and though his intention might be to secure 

 a pike or pickerel, a speckled trout might become attached to the hook. 

 In general, also, it is to be noted that visitors would hardly go to the 

 expense of visiting the reserve for the purpose of angling for pike, pick- 

 erel or lake trout, which they could find in equal or greater abundance 

 at far less expense to themselves in more accessible portions of the 

 Province, and in the case of the lake containing bass, already referred to, 

 it would seem altogether improbable that visitors would journey so far 



