194 GAME AND FISH JiB SORTS. 



There are numerous small villages near which excellent fishingf may be had 

 and though many of them, have no hotels, yet the inhabitants are hospi^ble, and 

 kindly in the extreme. 



The counties ofWolfe and Megantic are wild and unsettled, as also are part* 

 of the counties of Compton, Richmond and Shefford, and even parts of the town 

 of Sherbrooke, and the tourist would do well to arm himself with a rifle as he may 

 have an opportunity to meet bruin in his native haunts. Of course, only in the 

 H ilder parts of the above counties is this possible, but there are numerous smaller 

 animals j and eagles are quite common. The requisite supplies can be procured 

 cheaply in Canada. 



Brompton Lake, and Lake Megantic, Aylmer and others as well as many tribu- 

 taries of the Chaudiere^ afford splendid sport. The Waterloo Fishing Club have 

 a shanty on an island m Brompton Lake, and are exceedingly courteous to all 

 sportsmen, and many small lakes near their village w^ould well repay a week 

 spent on their shores. 



There are also salmon in Salmon River but they will not take a fly. 



The most ^vorable season for trout fishing is during May and June, and the 

 latter part of September. During the hotter months they are only to be found in 

 the springholes and deep shady pools ; but there are several lakes in which they 

 can be caught on any cloudy summer day. 



The 2lfegantic District — 



The section of the Province of Quebec known as the Megantic country em- 

 braces the eastern portions of Compton and Wolfe counties and the southern part 

 of the county of Beauce, its southern and eastern boundaries being the States of 

 New Hampshire and Maine. The surface of the country is of a rolung character, 

 dotted with occasional mountains, the Megantic being the largest in the district, 

 and one of th,e finest mountains in the province. The district is well watered with 

 numerous lakes and streams, w^hich form the sources of two rivers of considerable 

 size — the St. Francis and the Chaudiere. The former river affords but little sport 

 for the angler as it only contains a few mascalonge, pickerel, and other coarse 

 , fish, unless we add salmon, which run up the river to some of its tributaries for 

 the purpose of spawning, but they give no sport to the fiy-fisher, as they will not 

 rise and take the fly so far from the sea. The upper ^waters of the Chaudiere are 

 well stocked with the Salmo /ontinalis^ and some of them of large size. To 

 reach this district, make your first stopping place at Sherbrooke, where you will 

 find good accommodations at the M-agog House. Its genial landlord. Brother 

 Buck, knows how to keep a hotel. You can here procure your supplies, except- 

 ing tent and fishing tackle, which, of course, you have brought with you, together 

 with your breech loading rifle and a large sized revolver and compass. At this 



goint either hire a team for the trip with wagon suitable for hauling a boat, or go 

 y stage east to the village of Robmson, or " Burg," as ;t is more familiarly called, 

 twenty-six miles distant from Sherbrooke, and the centre of a tine fishing region. 

 Stop at Clonglis Hotel. Good trout fishing at hand in the mill ponds, and also at 

 the new mill, on a brook some five miles out from the village toward Scotston. 

 Vou can procure boats here, to haul into the wilderness, if you are going farther. 



Scoiston. This is a new village at Victoria Falls, on the Salmon River, a trib- ^ 

 utary of the St Francis River, twelve miles drive from Robinson, or the Burg, 

 by wagon or Pi nkham's Express. You can procure a guide here for $1.25 per 

 day. Archie MacDonald is a trustworthy guide, or John Breaden, of Burg ; 

 Archie Annas, a college educated Indian, is also a good guide, his address is 

 Dilton, Quebec. Pinkham usually has boats to hire, and w^ill fiarnish a team to 

 haul your boat to the bay or over to the lake at a mere nominal sum. While you 

 remain at Scotston occupy your tent by all means, and sleep in peace. There 

 are some large trout in the rapids below the dam. and many smaller ones of half 

 a pound weight in the pond above. Should your visit there be during the month 

 of August you would undoubtedly witness some of the various methods used by 

 the Scotch settlers to destroy the salmon that are stopped here by the dam on 

 their way to their spawning grounds in the still waters a few miles above the 

 falls. 



^ Lake Megantic. _ There are two routes to Lake Megantic — one by the new 

 Government road from Scotston to Myers, a distance of eighteen or twenty miles 

 the other, the old route via Gould and Starnoway, to the lake near its foot, at John 

 Boston's, Lake Megantic Post Office, distance about thirty-eight miles from 

 Scotston. Thisroute passes near two lakes— Moffat's and McGill's— which contain 

 DO speckled trout, but a fish called " white fish." Gould is a small village in the 

 lownship of Linwick. In the northern part of t^ e town there is a trout lake which 



