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ing its outlet at the extremity of the right leg 
of the Breeches. Although ‘Stanstead ” 
places it in the Megantie district, it is more 
properly in the St. Francis district, being north- 
erly of the St. Francis lake and river and 
within the judicial district of that name. 
Within a range of ten or fifteen miles from 
Breeches Lake, are numerous lakes and ponds 
but little fished as yet with rod or troll, and 
literally teeming with trout, lunge, pike, pick- 
erel, and bass. It is doubted if either troll or 
fly has ever been used on Breeches Lake, the 
night line being the approved method of cap- 
turing the speckled and silvery sided denizens 
of this pretty little sheet of water. The lake 
and speckled trout—a very fair sprinkling of 
the latter—run from three-fourths to two or 
three pounds weight, with a general average 
of about one and one-fourth pounds. That the 
fish in Breeches Lake are plenty there can be 
no doubt. ‘In running the lines out from the 
shore,” says a gentleman who visited this 
lake in 1876, “fish frequently rose to the min- 
now bait, and in taking up a short line for the 
last time before leaving, out of six trout caught 
on it, two were caught fowl. This would look 
as though they must have been having a lively 
time below.” There are about three quarters 
of a mile of wood intervening between Breech- 
es Lake and Indian Lake, while the small 
stream connecting the two is so small and 
grown up with timber that it is impossible to 
get a boat through it. But an old lumberroad 
extends between Indian and Breeches lakes, 
which could be brushed out in a few hours so 
that a ligut boat could be portaged across, 
when the skillful handling of fly and troll 
would meet with abundant success. The pro- 
per time to arrive there would be about June 
30. In the left leg of the Breeches, lunge 
weighing nearly twenty pounds have been 
caught. The water is generally deep and 
clear, with beautiful smooth sand and gravel 
beach at the head of the lake. The high ridge 
or promontory which separates the legs of the 
Breeches, would be a very desirable camping 
spot, as from its situation flies would not be 
roublesome, and the dry timber standing 
would be ample to keep the pot boiling. A 
handy man for camp work can be had for $1 
per day. Neither Indian nor Breeches lakes 
are settled. The Quebec Central Railway pass- 
es within five or six miles of the point named. 
OTONABEC RIVER. 
The Otonabec River, in Peterboro county, 
is a noble Canadian black bass stream. It is 
a sluggish stream of some twenty miles in 
length, and from one hundred to one hundred 
and twenty yards wide, winding gracefully 
through forest and farm till it enters Rice 
Lake, a splendid sheet of water twenty-five 
miles long by about three broad. The fish in. 
this riber are game to the last. The season 
begins about the middle of June (after the fish 
have spawned) and continues tiil October. 
The bait generally used is live minnow. As 
many as sixty bass have been taken in an af- 
ternoon’s fishing by two rods, averaging from 
one to five and a half pounds each in weight. 
THE YELLOWSTONE VALLEY. 
ITS CHARMS FOR SPORTSMEN. 
Many of the journals and periodicals 
have occasionally made mention of the 
famous Yellowstone Valley of Montana, 
and have spoken of its many natural won- 
ders and ¢uriosities, but few, if any, have 
made any reference to its advantages as 
a field for sportsmen. Of its famous 
geysers, its curious mud fountains, its 
frost-like incrustations of every hue and 
shade, its magnificent lakes, its thermal 
springs and varied scenery, accurate ac- 
counts have been given by Donne, Hay- 
den, and others. But that it is the favor- 
ite Summer resort, the Newport and 
Saratoga, of the grizzly bear, the Cali- 
fornia lion, and innumerable varieties of 
fur-bearing animals, and of the feather- 
ed tribes; that the lakes, both large and 
small, fairly teem with trout, and, as one 
writer says, ‘‘ there are no small trout 
there, few, if any, weighing less than a 
pound,” almost no one has heard. En- 
trance to this valley is through the canon 
of the Yellowstone, and this can be gain- 
ed only during the months of June, July, 
August, and September. There is also 
a trail over the mountains, touching the 
