BIG TROUT OF THE NEPIGON 



Stream brings him to good fishing grounds. The after- 

 noon of the second day should find him at pools where 

 three and four pound trout have been taken, and if he 

 prefers a shorter trip he may enjoy good sport in the 

 Sauteriski, one of the tributaries of the Jacques Car- 

 tier, which has yielded five-pound trout in the month 

 of September. Licenses to fish in the park, which 

 covers over a million and a half of acres, and all other 

 information respecting it may be obtained from the 

 Department of Fish and Game, at the Parliament House 

 in Quebec. Fair fishing may be had in the rapids of 

 the Jacques Cartier River in the latter part of May and 

 the first part of June, and though the largest fish do 

 not always rise to surface lures in spring-time, trout of 

 a good size are plentiful, and many anglers prefer to 

 fight fontinalis in rapid water, even though they may 

 not secure the biggest fish. Smaller fish may be had 

 all through the summer in the Jacques Cartier rapids, 

 but the insect pests of the Canadian forests detract 

 largely from the sportsman's enjoyment there during 

 the month of July and the early part of August. The 

 open season for trout in the province of Quebec com- 

 mences on May 1st, though it frequently happens 

 that the ice does not leave the surface of the northern 

 lakes until several days later. In some seasons the 

 fish rise as early as the 5th to the 8th of May ; in others 

 there is not much fly-fishing before the 15th of that 

 month. July is an off month, except for small fish, 

 or for trolling and bait-fishing ; and neither the last ten 

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