GROWTH 75 



1906 — ^W"m. Robson, Harwood, Rice Lake, fish caught in 

 Rice Lake, 7 lbs., 3 ozs. 



1907 — j. C- Bkwmer, TnroTito. fish caaight in Lake Koshee, 

 6 lbs., S ozs. 



1909 — -Johnnie Anderson, ilalta, fiih :i.-jLght in Lake Koshee, 

 6 lbs., 6 ozs. 



It is difficult to make any siaggesdoiis, either to anaate-rs 

 or to veterans, who naay be ambiticms enough to try to eclipse 

 these records; for the beginner may aodden tally land a big 

 fish, whilst the veteran may fish all his life and get none but 

 those of mediocre size and weight- Two geceral rules, how- 

 ever, mav be laid down for the guidance of anglers: firstly, 

 to fish in unfrequented lakes of small dimensaoas, where food 

 is plentiful and therefore the fish are likely to reach a great 

 size : and, secondly, to fish in all posable places, at all posable 

 times, naaking angling a chief pastinae, so that, by the doc- 

 trine of probabilities, one may, dairing the course of a loiig 

 life, chance to get a fish of record size ; always renaembering 

 that there are bigger fish in the sea than were ever taken out 

 by the hand of man. 



Mv own experience has heeu that of the average individral : 

 the only large fish I ever caught was one taken in August, 

 1878, in Four-mile Lake, uear Goboconk, weigteng 6 lbs., 

 4 ozs.; another, which I caught in July. 118&8, at Lac St. 

 Joseph, north of the City of Quebec, (one of the few lakes in 

 the Province of Oudbec which used to contain smrall-naouthed 

 bassi), weighed 5 lbs., 3 ozs. 



But I have a dim reoollectaon that, as a snaall boy, I was 

 accustomed to go angling every summer, during June and 

 Julv, to the aforementioned Four-mile Lake, and that once, 

 when fishing from the top of a fallen pine tree which pro- 

 jected ov^ar the edge of the lake, I was pulled into the water 

 by a monstrous bass, which always haunted this Pine Tree 

 Top and had become famous, all the country roornd, as a 

 destrover of lines, rods and baits; and that, some days after- 



