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Nothing ver}' eventful took place during January, and everything was satis- 

 factory. During February and March he made occasional trips over his district, 

 calling at the diiferent fishing locations. The fishermen reported the fishing poor 

 In April, the season being late and cold. He thinks the Department did wisely 

 in extending the hoop-net season from the 15th April to the 30th, for the winter 

 had 'been so very severe and the ice so thick they could not do much fishing. 



He went to Be'lleville on the 22nd April, by order of the Department, where 

 he spent the remainder of the month doing patrol service on the Bay of Quinte, 

 having been furnished with a motor boat and an assistant. He seized five sets 

 of hoop-nets in Massassauga Cove that had been set for fishing, and the stakes 

 that held the nets were all sawed of? below the surface of the water, and the ends 

 of the stakes were blackened so as not to be easily seen. He brought them in to 

 Belleville and stored them in the Government boat-house, and the owner was 

 afterwards fined $25.00 and costs. On another occasion he seized and took up 

 a great quantity of gi'll net — ^^about 500 yards — at the mouth of the Murray Canal, 

 which he also took to Belleville and stored with the hoop-nets. At the end of 

 the month he returned to Jones Falls. 



On the 15th May, he and his assistants began to fit up the "Mermaid" for the 

 season's work, and by the 29th had her in first-class shape. From that date 

 throughout the season of navigation on the Eideau Canal they kept up a constant 

 patrol of the Canal waters from Newboro to Kingston. The spring was late, and 

 the weather ver}^ wet and cold, and they worked under considerable difficulty 

 during the last days of May. 



On the 30th May he received eight cans of salmon fry at Newboro station 

 from the Dominion Fish Hatchery at Newcastle. They emptied two cans in Indian 

 Lake, South Crosby, and took six cans to Dog Lake, Storington Tp., and deposited 

 them there. 



On the 15th June the tourists and non-residents began to come in, and the 

 bass were not done spawning until the end of that month. He saw them brought 

 in by the anglers to the hotels, with the spawn running out of them. He never 

 heard better reports from the anglers, and he never saw finer catches than he saw 

 exhibited on the la^\-ns of Hotel de Kenny, Jones Falls, and the Club House at 

 Chaffey's Locks, Rideau Canal, this summer. Bass weighing 6% lbs were to be 

 seen on different occasions at Jones Falls, and 51^ lbs. were common. 



He spent the month of July looking after non-residents, selling permits, 

 collecting the fees, and keeping up a daily patrol of the waters in his district. 



During August the weather was very unfavourable for the tourists, and although 

 the fishing was good, there was so much rain that the tourists could not get a whole 

 day's fishing at a time. He thinks the weather conditions were largely account- 

 able for his business not being as good financially as in some years past. 



The continued cold through September drove the tourists away, and it was 

 easy to see that the tourist season was at its close for this year. 



They did a good deal of patrol work in October, some days with the "Mer- 

 maid," and part of the time with a rowboat when they wanted to grapple for 

 nets. On the 12th of that month, while patrolling Whitefish Lake in this way 

 with a rowboat, they grappled up two large gill nets, about two miles from 

 Seeley's Bay, and the same night they found a hoop-net in waters where he knew 

 no one had a license. There was no tag on the net, so he seized it, and brought 

 the three nets to Jones Falls. Next day they dried them and measured them. 

 There were 200 yards of gill net, which no one has yet claimed. The hoop net 



