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and, as a consequence of keeping the river 
clear, takes are steadily increasing. The 
Gander has every requ'site for a salmon stream: 
it runs without a natural obstruction for over 
one hundred miles, with its lakes and numerous 
affluents, and it provides the parent fish with 
the most splendid spawning grounds.”’. - 
Our Newfoundlanders think so little of 
_ trout that they use them as bait for cod! Yet 
the day will come when the trout, by attracting 
tourists, will, perhaps, net as much as the sea 
fisheries do to-day. ae ae 
St. John’s, Newfoundland. 

Fishing in Canada 
Trout-fishing is very good in the provinces of 
Quebec and Ontario. Some tremendous bas- 
kets, or, rather, sacks, of trout have been made 
in the Laurentians and beyond. One man, who 
should have known better, got 300 in two days, 
one of which was a Sunday. All this early 
fishing is with bait, and after the warmer 
weather sets in such big takes are not frequent, 
' though one can always get all that a sportsman 
should: want. 
I never consider the trout fit to catch, as to 
condition, until they have had a gorge of the 
fly known in the States as the shad fly and in 
England as the May fly. 
During the months of July and August ex- 
cellent sport may be had by using a small 
midge fly on a No. 12 or smaller hook, and 
fishing only early and late. A fly that is very 
successful in the summer is the Jenny Lind, 
but early in the season I could never do much 
with it. 
Unfortunately the authorities do not seem 
able to prevent the wholesale netting or 
dynamiting of trout. Only the other day a 
friend saw 800 pounds of trout shipped from 
the station at Ste. Agathe. If this sort of thing 
could be stopped it would save many a lake. 
A few years ago these practices were in a fair 
way of being made too risky, but the poachers 
seem to have taken heart of grace again, and 
some very fine catches will be ruined. Of 
course, if one can spare the time to go back, 
there is all kinds of fishing yet, but the busy 
man wants his sport within easy reach. 
The Algonquin Park has been fished by 
several parties this year, and all seem to have 
done well. This is in Ontario, within easy 
reach of Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. 
But of fishing waters in Canada there is no 
end—thank Providence. The country is, how- 
ever, going ahead so fast the modern man has 
not the time to spend by the waterside that his 
sire had. ‘Aw ANGLER. 
Montreal, P. Q. 
A Contented Tyro 
Up to last year I had not done any bass- 
fishing to speak of, but put in most of my spare 
time after trout. I always considered bass as 
an inferior fish. Fate sent me to a part of the 
country where there were no trout, but many 
bass, so I set to work to find out something 
about that kind of fishing. I became the owner 
of a “special” grade bait rod weighing 64 
ounces, and 6% feet long, with bell guides and 
agate on topand lower ring; a take-apart reel, 
for 60 yards of braided raw silk line, and the 
whole outfit did not cost more than $20. I 
bought, later, a few artificial minnows and 
found that for bass-fishing I had a rig hard to 
beat. In some waters these fish, especially 
if big fellows, will not take artificial bait so 
well as natural bait, but in Michigan and 
Canada they will generally take them. And, 
to my mind, one fish caught on the artificial 
beats two of a kind on natural bait, as one 
has not the trouble of carting the can and all 
the other truck that go with the natural article. 
I should like to hear from more experienced 
bass-fishermen, as, after all, one season is not 
enough to learn more than the rudiments of 
the art of bass-fishing. BADGER. 
Chicago, Il. 

The Nepigon 
The best fishing on this continent is to be 
had here on the Nepigon River. The trout 
run up to eleven pounds and there are many 
of them. Like everything that is good, the 
trout-fishing of the Nepigon costs money. It 
has been calculated that the expense for a 
modest party, expecting to be out ten days, may 
be set at $100. This does not include the cost 
of provisions nor the services of a special man 
to cook, so that for most men the price might 
be almost doubled. 
The Nepigon is but thirty miles long, but it 
drains a lake containing goo square miles of 
water, full of trout. Those found in the 
Nepigon are on their way down to Lake 
Superior. No matter how many are caught, 
the fishing will not suffer so long as the lake 
at the head remains unpolluted. 
The Hudson’s Bay Company and McKirdy 
are the two outfitters. They will engage guides. 
Nepigon, Ont. 
Law Didn’t Protect Bass, 
The cold and backward spring delayed the 
spawning of the bass, and consequently the 
law protecting them in some States failed of its 
purpose. In too many States bass are allowed 
to be taken in May. The season in all northern 
States should open the middle of June, as in 
New York State. 
Coldwater, Mich, H. F, BAILEY, 
