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desire to pass a few weeks down the river, he will find 

 plenty of sport on either shore — either lake or river 

 fishing. 



Lake St. Joseph, distant about 25 miles from Quebec, 

 is a most magnificent sheet of water. It affords excellent 

 fishing for both Trout and Bass — the Trout fishing in June 

 and July, and the Bass (black) in August. With proper 

 care and a due regard to the proper' time for fishing, this 

 lake would prove the fortune of any person who would 

 attend solely to the business ; indeed, hundreds of families 

 could subsist by the sale of the fish that could be taken 

 here. This lake empties into the Jacques Cartier river, 

 and with but little trouble, the Salmon could make 

 their way up to the lake ; and if such was the case, there 

 can be no computing the vast results that would arise from 

 such a circumstance. All that is required, is to make a 

 Salmon slide with one or tworests, and all obstacles wouldbe 

 overcome. It is not a fortnight since some splendid fish 

 ■were brought to our market from this lake, one of which 

 was said to have been a salmon. I was asked to go and see 

 it. I did so, at the house of the gentleman who had pur- 

 chased it for twenty shillings; and I much regretted to find 

 that it was only a very large lake trout, though it had many 

 scales. I should suppose it weigjied from 14 to 15 pounds. 

 The other lakes that I have mentioned abound in trout, 

 but those that are nearer to the city are being destroy- 

 ed, by the evil habits of fishing during the spawning sea- 

 son. This last fall and winter has seen less fishing, and 

 the Act, I think, has been of some benefit. An example 

 was made of one most notorious fisher. Legal proceedings 

 were taken against him, which I think, and indeed know, 



