232 THROUGH CANADA 



one's balance was a problem painful enough at the 

 moment, but how delightful in retrospect ! 



Deep pools where we knew the bigger fish lay 

 were approached in a different fashion. There was 

 abundance of fry and minnows in the creeks. These 

 we captured with a dry fly, and mounted them on 

 a Thames flight, the only method of outwitting the 

 wary game. My companion earlier in the week broke 

 his cast in a fish that must have been 6 lbs. The 

 trout could be seen the next day, springing out of the 

 water, with the gut hanging from him, apparently 

 indifferent to this unusual appendage. Further up 

 the creek the forest trees, interlacing in thick impene- 

 trable foliage, cast a cool shade over the river, a vista 

 of a magnificent range of mountains amongst the 

 glaciers, where the river rises, showing beyond. The 

 peaks stood clear-cut above the pine-clad woods, and 

 in the evening light, there stole that wonderful violet 

 atmosphere that sheds such a mysterious halo over 

 God's everlasting hills. 



Of larger rivers there are many, where the different 

 species of trout are found. The North Thompson, 

 which joins the Fraser at Lytton, flows through 

 Kamloops Lake. Rising in the Quesnel region, and 

 drawing its life from the union of a small triplet of 

 lakes, of which Albreda is chief, it winds in a southern 

 course, receiving the contents of other streams at 

 various points. Its water is clear, and most of the 

 trout species make it their habitat. 



