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and which I feel quite certain will prove a killing fly 

 for these waters in the June ouananiche fishing. Some 

 exceptionally good catches are made with the spoon 

 in the end of the season, not only in the Decharge 

 itself, but also in that part of the lake immediately 

 above it, and especially around the different islands 

 in the vicinity. 



The best fly-fishing for ouananiche at the end of the 

 season is undoubtedly to be had in the Metabetchouan 

 Kiver not in its mouth, as in the spring, but at the 

 foot of its picturesque falls, some five miles up from 

 the lake. The place is rather difficult of access, but 

 the visitor, either in August or in the early part of 

 September, is amply recompensed for the trouble of 

 reaching it, both by the wild grandeur of the sur- 

 roundings and by the nature of the angling to be 

 obtained. The ouananiche taken there are on their 

 way to their spawning- beds, and are, for the most 

 part, large. Colonel Andrew C. P. Haggard, D.S.O., 

 a brother of the famous novelist, had a most success- 

 ful catch here in September, 1892, fishing with the 

 phantom minnow, and Forest and Stream has recorded 

 that on the 4th and 5th of September, 1894, Rev. Dr. 

 Yan Dyke, of the Brick Presbyterian Church, New 

 York, took thirty -two fish there, weighing one hundred 

 and thirty-six pounds, nearly all on small flies, most- 

 ly the Reuben Wood, Professor, Dark Coachman, and 

 Hare's Ear. 



In the northern tributaries of Lake St. John and 

 their adjacent waters are to be found the best sum- 

 mer fishing-grounds for ouananiche. The sport that 

 they afford does not materially differ from that to be 



