SALMON AND TROUT FISHING IN CANADA 



The Indian and the Ingram rivers are within reasonable distance of 

 Halifax, and other salmon fishing can usually be had within a few miles of 

 Truro and Wallace, both of which are well-known stations of the Inter- 

 colonial railway. 



By far the best salmon fishing is to be had in the provinces of New 

 Brunswick and Quebec. Forming for some distance the boundary between 

 the two provinces is the far-famed Restigouche, the best pools of which 

 are fished by American millionaires. The Restigouche Salmon Club, 

 having its headquarters at " the meeting of the waters," in the picturesque 

 Matapedia valley, close to the junction of the Matapedia and Restigouche 

 rivers, is the owner of riparian fishing rights and leases of salmon fishing 

 privileges, worth at least a million dollars [£200,000]. 



Nearly every reach of water in America on which there is any possible 

 chance of killing a salmon with a fly is now either owned in fee simple, or 

 leased to anglers. The competition among fishermen in recent years 

 for good salmon water has been intense, and the price of privileges has 

 consequently reached a very high level. The number of wealthy Canadians 

 and Americans on the look out for salmon fishing is rapidly increasing, 

 and the extent of available water is diminishing. 



For a portion of the fishing in the Grand Cascapedia, which flows into the 

 Bale des Chaleurs, the Cascapedia Salmon Club pays an annual rental of 

 12,000 dollars [£2,400] to the government of the province of Quebec. 



Mr James J. Hill, the American railway magnate, pays over 4,000 dollars 

 [£800] a year for the fishing privileges of the St John River on the coast of 

 the Canadian Labrador. Mr Hill fishes this river with three or four friends 

 for about three weeks each year, making the journey from Quebec, which 

 occupies about two days, by steam yacht. As in the case of the Moisie and 

 the Natashquan and some other rivers flowing into the Gulf of St Lawrence 

 from the north, the St John River is very deep for its lower eight or ten 

 miles. The fishing above these lower miles of dead water is excellent, and 

 Mr Hill and his party have sometimes over six hundred salmon to their 

 credit in a single season. Neither in the St John nor in the Natashquan, 

 however, do the fish run so large as in the Moisie, which is by far the best 

 and most valuable river on the north shore of the Gulf. There has been 

 much litigation over the ownership of the fishing rights in the Moisie, 

 but Mr Ivers W. Adams, of Boston, who some years ago purchased the 

 rights of the riparian owners, has now come to terms with the govern- 

 ment of the province of Quebec by purchasing from it the bed of the 



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