Se THROUGH CANADA 



Long Point, standing away on the north-west, com- 

 mands ;^2000 per gun for a life interest, and a select 

 club of sixteen holds the monopoly. The island is 

 twenty-one miles long, and three wide. It is well 

 wooded in places, and in addition to other game 

 there are two or three thousand deer. 



Bass, like trout, take to the deeper parts of the 

 lake during July and August. In the spring they 

 are found on the shallows, where they rise to the 

 fly, and take a silver doctor, a Jock Scot or a dusty 

 miller. Minnows, which abound in Lake Erie, as 

 well as perch fry, demoralize the bass as they do 

 trout in Irish lakes. When they begin to gorge on 

 these, flies dance over them in vain. Their cannibal 

 tastes had to be studied, and we netted a bucket 

 full of these small fry before starting. They are 

 mounted on a gut trace with a single hook attached, 

 and a sinker sufficient in weight to carry the line 

 within a foot of the bottom. Canadians use short 

 steel rods, a multiplying reel, and stout tackle. 



The outfit scarcely commends itself to a scientific 

 angler. The gut is strong enough to play a salmon, 

 and the rod is stiff" and only from four to six feet 

 long. Steel does not possess the flexibility of split 

 cane or greenheart. A multiplying reel seems to 

 me both clumsy and unnecessary, and is mainly 

 fruitful in multiplying the angler's sorrows. The 

 object — the rapid recovery of the line — is scarcely 

 needed in the case of bass. The fish do not take 



