SPORT ALL THE YEAR ROUND. 



While British Columbia is pretty generally known as a splendid 

 game country, very few people actually realize its true value, and 

 that from year's end to year's end either gun, rifle, or rod can be 

 used ; so that a man who is fond of shooting and fishing can always 

 find something to tax his skill. Of course, the amount of success met 

 with will, to a certain extent, depend on the man himself ; and even 

 with the best of men there will be blank days ; but there is no country 

 in the world where so many different varieties of sport can be success- 

 fully enjoyed. Where else could you go and find such a variety of 

 game both for rod and gun, combined with such trout and salmon 

 fishing? It would take a good-sized book to exhaust each branch of 

 sport and the best places to obtain it, but an idea will be given of 

 how an all-round sportsman, with a year to spare, could occupy his 

 time in this country. 



It does not matter at what time of the year you come, but, 

 presuming you are going to start on big game, it would be as well to 

 be here early in August. This would enable you to get into the 

 Cassiar country, presuming, of course, 3^ou have engaged your guide 

 and horses beforehand. The C.P.R. boats leave Vancouver about 

 every ten days for WTangel, and the one that leaves nearest lo 

 August 1 2th would be the best to take. At Wrangel you will probably 

 go up the Stikine River to Telegraph Creek on a river-launch, which 

 now makes regular trips, but you may catch the Hudson's Bay Co.'s 

 river-steamer. You should then be in camp on your hunting-grounds 

 ready for September ist. You will not get any wapiti or deer there, 

 but, if you can do a good day's walk and are even a moderate shot, 

 you could hardly fail to get specimens of moose, Osborn's caribou, 

 Stone's sheep, and mountain-goats, with a good chance of a grizzly or 

 black bear or a wolf or fox. Do not spend any time actually hunting 

 for bear, as you will have a better chance at them in the spring, when 

 their fur is prime. 



Get your sheep first. You are allowed to kill three in all, but 

 only two of any one species ; and while you might get specimens of 

 all the so-called species, the Oz'is stoiici, fannini, and dalli, they are 

 so closely related and grade so much from one to the other that it is 

 best only to kill two, as you may have a chance at a brown sheep 

 {Ovis canadensis) later on. Stick to your sheep till you have got 

 what you want, and do not tie yourself down to so much time to get 



