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Washington, D. C., and Lexington, Mass., upon his re- 

 turn from a fishing excursion with Dean Bobbins, of 

 Albany, N. Y., and party : " In Lake Batiscan the 

 dean caught by trolling an eight-and-one-quarter-pound 

 trout, and one of the party another of eight and one-half 

 pounds. The latter was twenty-six inches long and sev- 

 enteen in girth. Besides these, twelve trout were caught 

 whose aggregate weight was seventy-two pounds." 



It is the intention of the management of this club to 

 plant ouananiche in some of its waters, and there are 

 series of heavy rapids and deep lakes in which they 

 ought to thrive splendidly. 



One of the largest bodies of unleased trout water in 

 this section of the country is Lac des Grandes lies, of 

 recent years known as Lake Edward. It is a marvel- 

 lously beautiful lake, some twenty miles long, whose 

 praises have been rapturously sung by Kit Clarke, W. 

 H. H. Murray, and others. Down in the depths of its 

 clear crystal waters, so deep down that they seldom 

 rise to the surface to take the fly, love to linger some 

 of the largest and most brilliantly colored trout of 

 these high latitudes. In the spring of the year they are 

 often taken, up to five and six pounds each in weight, 

 with live minnows. The fishing is here at its best 

 from the time that the ice leaves the lake, early in May, 

 up to the middle of June. Good fly-fishing may be 

 had by ascending the Biviere aux Bats, a westerly 

 feeder of the lake. Boats, guides, and hotel accom- 

 modation can be had at the railway station one hun. 

 dred and thirteen miles from Quebec which is built 

 upon the very border of the lake. The big red-bellied 

 trout of Lake Edward descend the Biver Jeannotte, 



