CHAPTER XV 



Going west — Stave River — Minnow and spoon-bait— 

 Coquitlam River — Vancouver angling — Scarcity of gillies — Off 

 to the Narrows — Angling in the Pacific — Playing a salmon in 

 a swift tide — Dame Fortune's amends — Off Vancouver Island — 

 The Campbell River — The Cowichan River — Advocacy of the 

 fly — The best months — Trout fishing — The fly season — The 

 fry season — A visit to Seymour Creek — A lonely forest— Track 

 of the grizzly — In search of a trail — The Vedder river — A 

 charming retreat — Wading for Dolly Vardens — Capture with 

 the fly — A magic evening scene — The North Thompson River — 

 The Columbia River — Kootenay and Okanagan — The course 

 of the Columbia River — Great trout lakes. 



GOING further west, between Mission Junction 

 and Whomack on the Canadian Pacific 

 Railway, there is the Stave, another salmon river. 

 It runs from Stave Lake, five miles distant from 

 Ruskin. The lake itself is only about three miles 

 long, and is fed by a triplet of small rivers flowing 

 from the north. Fraser salmon run up the Stave to 

 spawn. It has many swift reaches, where cohoes 

 and spring fish rest, and are in a mood to take the 

 fly. If the river is discoloured, a medium-sized 

 spoon or a large Devon minnow are suitable lures. 

 The Fraser is beautifully flanked at Ruskin, with 



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