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grants permits at $1.00 per day per | 
man. 
The Restigouche is one of the most 
famous rivers in New Brunswick, and 
the salmon run very large, ranging 
from eight to fiifty pounds; thirty, 
thirty-five, and forty pounds are not 
uncommon catches. ‘The season is 
about ten days earlier here than at the 
Miramichi or Nepisseguit, and usual- 
ly opens from 5th to 10th of June, 
and keeps up through the Summer. 
The largest fish are the first that run 
up. Splendid pool within a stone’s 
throw of the hotel. Distance from 
here to Riviere du Loup, 179 miles; 
from there to Quebec, 125 miles. 
Whole distance from Boston to St. 
John, 460 miles; St. John to Quebec, 
588 miles; Quebec to Boston, 460 
miles. Total, 1,445 miles. 
Round trip tickets from Boston to 
Restigouche via St. John, and return 
via Quebec, can be procured for about 
$31. 
Expenses of fishing at Restigouche 
per day: Board, $2; board of two 
guides, $2.50; permit, $1; canoe, 50 
cents; two guides per day, $1.50. To- 
tal expenses per day, $6.50. As the 
water is very “ quick,” two guides are 
indispensable per man. 
necessary expenses for two weeks’ trip 
‘from Boston to Restigouche, $150. 
Plenty of sea trout six miles below 
Metapedia, running from one-half to | 
five pounds in weight. 
For full particulars address Daniel 
Fraser, Metapedia Station; Waverly 
Hotel, New Castle, J. H. Wilbur, Bay 
View Hotel, Bathurst, N. B. 
[It may be well to say to those that wish 
to cast their flies on the waters of the Nepiss- 
guit, that that stream is leased to private par- 
ties, like all other salmon rivers in Canada that 
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are worth anything ; but the lower division, 
or what is called the Rough Waters, can be 
fished by any one on payment of $1 per day 
to the warden. The consequence of this prac- 
tically open-to-all privilege is a great crowd 
of anglers, good and bad, and no sport nor 
pleasure to anyone. Much the same result ob- 
tains on the Metapedia or the lower part of it, 
which is open at the same price. The esti- 
mated expenses are no doubt toolight. Allow 
for all probable outlay, and then double the 
amount; and this will be near the cost on 
counting up the expense on returning home.] 
THE LAURENTIAN COUNTRY. 
Every one that can spare the time 
should try the Muskoka country, On- 
tario, Canada, where fishing and 
shooting, in their seasons, cannot be 
excelled. For speckled trout fishing, 
the South Branch of the Muskoka is 
The head waters of the Magan- 
etawan River are hard to beat for the 
speckled beauties, and the Namina- 
taygong or South River will hold its 
own with any of them. Then for 
maskalonge, the Muskosh and Moon 
rivers are first-class, and French River 
cannot be beaten for maskalonge, 
pike and pickerel; and lakes Rosseau, 
Joseph, Spider, Turtle, and Manito- 
waba, and the hundreds of other 
smaller lakes cannot be touched in 
the whole Laurentian country for 
black bass fishing. In the Autumn 
deer are plentiful, partridge are found 
everywhere. Moose are killed in the 
vicinity of Lake Nipissing in good 
numbers, also wild geese and ducks. 
The routes to reach these sections 
are as follows: Leave Toronto per 
Northern Railway to Grayenhurst, 
thence by steamer to Bracebridge, and 
then by stage, fourteen miles, to Bays- 
ville, on Trailing Lake, for trout fish- 
ing on the South Muskoka and North 
rivers. 
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