THE GAME FISHES OF THE WOELD 



sportsman througli this region. He may continue west to the 

 coast, and find at Vancouver with its fine climate, a charming 

 region abounding in trout, salmon, and on the way to Alaska, 

 salmon, grayling, trout and big game of various kinds await, 

 which reminds me that this is a description of game fishes, and 

 not of the localities in which they are foimd, a fascination hard to 

 resist, and important in the make-up of angling. 



The Kootenay Lakes of British Columbia, previously referred 

 to, afford fine angling, where the country with its snow-capped 

 mountains is a solace, if the fish are not rising. Some idea of the 

 fishing here can be obtained from the statement of L. G. Mathews 

 of Cardston, Alberta, who, in a river connecting the upper and 

 lower lake, took from a single pool (three rods) sixty-three trout, 

 which weighed two hundred and fifty-one pounds. In 1912 he 

 landed thirty that weighed sixty-eight pounds. 



The clubs and anglers have done much in Canada to conserve 

 the angling. Mr. George A. Weber, of Stamford, ISew York, 

 and Pasadena, California, has one of the most beautiful preserves 

 in Canada, embracing seventy square miles of countless streams 

 and lakes in the province of Quebec, one hundred miles north 

 of Montreal, in the country loved by Dr. Drummond. His 

 home " camp " is Sans Souci, on Lac Perchaud in the Laurentian 

 Club chain, but Mr. Weber owns most of the lake and can travel 

 by canoe and 'portage all summer and not leave his own particular 

 angling paradise. En passant, he is without a peer as a clever 

 fly caster. I spent the summer of 1910 in this wonderland, 

 where Eubald and Philarum Juneau, and other famous canoe- 

 men, make life worth the living. 



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