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get some very good sport. The green drake is the fly for 

 this lake in July, though I have killed some fine fish with 

 the black fly, the body tipped with red or yellow ; and 

 with the yellow wing, with brown body and red hackle." 



The river Etchemin, on the southern shore of the 

 Gulf, and the lake of the same name, from which it issues, 

 afford excellent trout fishing. Also on the northern shore 

 the inlets of the Saguenay, and the small river, the name 

 of which I have forgotten, which debouches close to the 

 mouth of the Moisie, abound in very large trout : instances 

 which might be multiplied to almost any extent. Col. 

 Drummond Hay, with one friend, killed a little above 

 the fishing station of Coudre, on the Moisie, in nineteen 

 days, 200 dozen of trout, weighing 3,800 lbs. ; one of the 

 days producing no less than 226 fish, the weight of 

 which amounted to 390|^ lbs. The greater part of these 

 fish were 3 lbs. and 3 J lbs. weight, and a few weighed 

 4 J lbs. A letter which I have just received from 

 Quebec reports an excursion to Snow Lake, fifty miles 

 from that city, on which occasion two rods alone killed in 

 seven days about 90 fish, lake trout and speckled trout, 

 twenty of which weighed from 7 to 12 lbs. each, and 

 one 14 lbs., the majority being from 2 to 4 lbs. They 

 were taken with the minnow, through holes in the ice ; 

 the larger ones were almost as black as ink on the back, 

 being bronzed and speckled on the sides, and very fat. 



