58 SEA TROUT. 



A steamboat ascends the Saguenay twice a week, and 

 he can either take it at Quebec or join it at Riviere du 

 Loup, and by this means enjoy a trip through the bold 

 scenery of that celebrated river, and can either return to 

 Riviere du Loup, or take a pilot boat at L'Anse a 1'Eau. 

 There is a generous-hearted Englishman living at L'Anse 

 a 1'Eau, but he has been compelled to refuse admission to 

 all strangers, as any infraction of that rule would have 

 led to his being overrun. 



Many of the streams of Lower Canada are leased to 

 private individuals, and there are few good accessible 

 .salmon streams open to the public, but the sea trout fish- 

 ing along the St. Lawrence and at the mouths of most 

 of the streams is free to all. In Nova Scotia and New 

 Brunswick, and at Prince Edward's Island, there is as 

 yet no restriction, and both salmon and trout are the 

 property of him who can catch them.* Nowhere, how- 

 ever, can any salmon fishing or good trout fishing be 

 had except by camping out. Canadian canoemen can 

 be obtained, if not required to furnish canoes, for sixty 

 cents a day, although the Indians, who are far superior, 

 command over a dollar, and where the angler is unac- 

 quainted with the water he is to fish, he had better take 

 the latter. They are, however, willful and exacting, 

 and sometimes stubborn and troublesome, while the 

 former are the best-natured fellows in the world, full of 

 fun, song and frolic, but often too fond of the liquor 

 case. 



The best river of Lower Canada is the Mingan, but if 

 it is not already leased it soon will be. It can be reached 

 by steamer that leaves Quebec semi-weekly, stopping at 



* License is now required for fishing in the British Provinces anywhere. 



