FISHING AT HOME AND ABROAD 

 river, including aU its claims to the fishing rights. The average weight of 

 the salmon of the Moisie taken on the fly is in the vicinity of nineteen 

 pounds. Many fish of thirty to forty pounds weight, and some exceeding 

 forty, being taken by Mr Adams and his friends every season. The 

 value of the Moisie fly-fishing has been variously estimated at from 

 one to two hundred thousand dollars [£20,000 to £40,000]. Ten miles 

 from its mouth, opposite the main camp, it is so wide that three boats, 

 each with an angler and his guides on board, are able to anchor 

 and to fish abreast of each other, without in the least interfering with 

 one another. 



The New England anglers, who fish the Natashquan, which flows into 

 the Gulf of St Lawrence to the east of Anticosti Island, sometimes find it 

 easier to reach their river, five hundred miles below Quebec, by steaming 

 around from Boston in a specially chartered yacht. £. A. Sothern, the 

 Duke of Beaufort, and W. J. Florence, the actor, reached the mouth of 

 this river on one occasion by paying the captain of the ocean steamer 

 upon which they had sailed from Europe to drop them off in a boat with 

 their fishing paraphernalia, just opposite the Natashquan. The salmon of 

 this river do not run particularly large, but they are very plentiful and 

 rise freely to the fly. The Natashquan itself is a very sporting river, the best 

 pools being in the vicinity of heavy falls and dangerous rapids, in which 

 some lives have already been lost. Here, perhaps, better than on any 

 other Canadian river, may be enjoyed the sight of myriads of salmon 

 essaying the leaps of the waterfalls, many of them five to six feet in height, 

 between the different ledges or pools in the rocks. The fishing in the 

 Natashquan, like that in the St John, is leased from the government of the 

 province of Quebec. This government has still a number of excellent 

 rivers to lease to salmon fishermen, but they are not very accessible to 

 civilization, most of them being situated but a comparatively short dis- 

 tance west of the Straits of Belle Isle. Some of them may be reached by 

 steamer from Newfoundland, and all of them by steam yacht or sailing 

 vessel from Gaspe or Quebec. Some of these rivers are very large and 

 well stocked with salmon. The sea trout fishing is exceedingly good in the 

 estuaries of the majority of these rivers, and in those of many other Cana- 

 dian salmon rivers as well. 



In some respects, the Grand Cascapedia is the most remarkable of 

 Canadian rivers. It has been fished by King George and by almost all 

 Canada's Governors -General of recent years. In what is still called the 

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