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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[July io, 1909- 
ing of exhilaration will make you better in every 
way. 
It is really pitiable to note the lack of intelli¬ 
gence that some anglers and hunters display. I 
know of a man who resigned from a club be¬ 
cause his guide insisted on putting fish back in 
the water. We still have the guide. 
F. A. Niccolls. 
Canadian Fish and Fishing. 
Quebec, Can., July 2 . —Editor Forest and 
Stream: This is the latest fishing season in 
Canada within the memory of local anglers. 
The spring thaw set in nearly a month later 
than usual, and until the 20th of June there 
were but few warm days in Eastern Canada. 
Flurries of sleet and snow were observed in 
Quebec and in other parts of the province on 
the 18th of June. On some of the lakes on the 
north shore of the St. Lawrence the ice held 
until the commencement of June. 
Ouananiche fishing opened early in June at 
Lake St. John, almost as soon as the ice had 
left the lake. The best localities were found 
to be off the mouths of the Ouiatchouan and the 
Metabetchouan rivers, where many good catches 
were made with the fly, as well as off the shore 
of Roberval and Pointe Bleue. There, in the 
lake itself, the fishing is free, and many people 
are taking advantage of it. Guides can be had 
with canoes, both from among the French- 
Canadian settlers at Roberval, and also from 
among the Montagnais Indians at Pointe Bleue, 
about four miles from the terminus of the rad¬ 
way. Comfortable board can be had in the 
village of Roberval, both in the hotel and in 
private houses. The fish are exceedingly abund¬ 
ant, and occasional salmon are taken with the 
ouananiche, being undoubtedly the product of 
the salmon hatching which was carried on for 
a number of years at the Roberval hatcheiy. 
Even when the fly-fishing ceases to be attrac¬ 
tive in Lake St. John later in the season, fish¬ 
ing with bait and trolling continues good all the 
season and large quantities of the fish are taken 
by the residents and others, the ouananiche show¬ 
ing good fighting qualities, no matter how hook¬ 
ed. No announcement has yet been made in 
regard to the opening of the Island House at 
the Grand Discharge to visiting fishermen. 
Trout fishing was found to be very poor and 
full of discouragement for visiting anglers who 
came into the province about the same time as 
in former years, without having taken the pre¬ 
caution to ascertain anything about the condi¬ 
tion of the season. A few went away without 
getting any fishing at all, and others got fishing 
without any fish. Many others found that the 
season was so late that they cancelled their 
spring trips altogether. Either the time and 
opportunity for their vacation had passed away, 
or they feared that a very late spring trip would 
bring them into the black fly and mosquito sea¬ 
son. 
Within the last few weeks the fishing has very 
much improved in Northern trout waters. Fewer 
club men than usual visited the Triton and Meta¬ 
betchouan club waters this spring, but some of 
those who did had very fair sport. Dr. Geo. 
E. Porter, of Bridgeport, was here as usual. 
Some of the best reports I have heard of this 
season have come from Lake Edward, where 
a number of catches of large trout have been 
made. Most of the camps there have been occu¬ 
pied and prospects promise well for a busy sea¬ 
son and good sport, especially in the newly 
opened district about the V ermillion River. 
Salmon fishing opened late and poor, but like 
the trout fishing is not unlikely to prove better 
as the season wears on. Several of the salmon 
anglers are only about going down to their 
rivers. Sir Lomer Gouin, prime minister of 
Quebec, with Hon. Alex, flaschereau and Chailes 
Lanctot, leave for the Moisie where they will 
be the guests of Ivers W. Adams, of Boston, 
on the 5th or 6th of July. Mr. Adams himself, 
with his first party of guests, left for the river 
in the third week of June. His son followed 
a week later. 
The litigation in regard to the fishing of this 
remarkable river, which it was thought had been 
settled by the judgment of the Supreme Court 
of Canada, has been reopened by the permission 
to appeal to the Imperial Privy Council, which 
has been granted by that body to the riparian 
owners of the greater part of the river banks, 
the estate of the late Alexander Fraser. This 
was quite unexpected and reopens the whole 
question of Mr. Adams title to the fishing, 
though he cannot in any case be the loser,, for 
having bought the river bed and fishing rights 
from the Government, the latter will have to 
secure Mr. Adams in peaceable possession of 
them or be liable for heavy damages, for it is 
understood that Mr. Adams values his fishing 
privileges on the Moisie for considerably over 
$100,000. Nor is this to be wondered at when 
it is borne in mind that the different salmon 
pools of the Moisie can easily accommodate half 
a dozen rods at a time. The angling records 
show 138 fish one year to a single rod in sixteen 
days’ fishing, and 200 salmon averaging over 18 
pounds each in another year to one rod in seven¬ 
teen days’ fishing. Another score on this river 
was eighty-five salmon to one rod in eleven 
days’ fishing, and some of the Moisie salmon run 
as high as from thirty to forty pounds each. 
J. J. Hill sailed hence on the 20th inst. on 
board his steam yacht Wacouta for his river, 
the St. John, four hundred miles below Quebec 
on the north shore of the gulf. For the right 
of fishing this river he pays $3,500 a year to the 
Quebec Government and he usually spends from 
two to three weeks in camp with a party of 
friends whose combined catch seldom runs be¬ 
low four or five hundred fish. This year he 
has with him Geo. F. Baker, Samuel Thorne, 
L. W. Hill, Geo. B. Harris and Dr. Geo. D. 
Stewart. 
The salmon in this river do not run so large 
as in the Moisie, but a few years ago five rods 
fished it for twenty-one days. The catch was 
416 fish, weighing 4,775 pounds, and only one of 
the anglers, Mr. Dennistoun, of Montreal, had 
ever fished for salmon before. The other ang¬ 
lers were Messrs. Thomas Havemeyer, Post and 
Harriotte, of New York, and Redpath, of Mon¬ 
treal, and Mr. Dennistoun reported that if five 
good rods had fished the river during the sea¬ 
son it would have been perfectly easy to have 
killed a thousand salmo 1 in it. 
The Messrs. Johnson, with Mr. Chapman, of 
New York; F. S. Hodges, of Boston, and other 
friends are fishing the Natashquan. Like J. J. 
Hill, they go to their river by steam yacht, only 
instead of sailng from Quebec as Mr. Hill does, 
they steam around from Boston and up the Gulf 
of St. Lawrence, and they do well to do so, for 
the Natashquan is far away from civilization 
and down toward the straits of Belle Isle. 
R. E. Plumb, of Detroit, is at present fishing 
his river, the Washecootai, some distance below 
the Natashquan, and Sir Charles Ross has re¬ 
cently left for the Olomonasheeboo, which is 
still further east. I 
The Godbout is being fished this year by John 
and James Manuel, Col. Whitehead, of Mon¬ 
treal, and Mr. Law. This river accommodates 
four or five rods, and it is no unusual thing for | 
them to kill from three to four hundred fish 
during the part of the season they are on the 
river. As an instance of what could be done in 
the way of making a score upon some Canadian j 
salmon rivers, it may be mentioned that on the 
Godbout, one season after its owners had left, 
they asked the guardian, Napoleon A. Comeaiv 
to see what he could do on it. On the second 
day after they had left he killed to his own 
rod fifty-seven salmon and grilse weighing 634 ] 
pounds and in eighteen days fishing caught 3601 
fish, averaging twenty salmon per day dm ing 
the whole time of his fishing. I he lot weighed ! 
3,832 pounds. 
The salmon fishing on the south shore livers 
opened somewhat earlier this year than on thell 
north, but thus far it has not been good. Dr. 
Seward Webb went down fairly early to the 
Restigouche, but neither he, Mr. Vanderbilt, not 
any of their friends, have been enjoying any¬ 
thing like their usual sport on the river. Col 
W. Molson Macpherson was on the river foi 
four days and killed four fish only. 
Alexander Patterson, senior director of the 
Bank of Montreal, died suddenly while fishing 
the Restigouche the other day. He was appar 
ently in good health and had been actively cast 
ing from his boat with his own rod, which wa 
quite a heavy one of English make, when h 
was suddenly stricken with apoplexy and fel 
over in the boat, dying almost immediately. Mi 
Patterson was seventy-six years old and fo 
the last ten years had fished the Godbout on th 
north shore. His death recalls the fact tha 
several old anglers have succeeded in fishin 
upon the Restigouche in recent years right u 
to the moment of death. Among them may b 
mentioned the late Mr. Sweeney, of Albany; th 
late Dean Sage and the late Dean Hoffman. 
E. T. D. Chambers. 
A Tarpon Catch. 
New York, June 20 .—Editor Forest ah 
Stream: Capt. John Gardiner has lived all h 
life about the coasts of Florida and has bet 
for several years the captain of the housebo I 
The Everglades, belonging to Colonel Robert I j 
Thompson, of this city. He writes that C< 
Thompson turned over the boat to General i 
Fred Pierson of New York city, who, wi 
two friends, Richard Pancoast, of New Yor 1 
and George Cole Scott, of Richmond, Va., ha 
just returned from a week’s fishing for tarpe 
and the captain thinks they made a record cat 
for Florida. They went to Indian Key ai 
Knights Key and killed as follows, in weight.. 
General Pierson—186, 160, 156, 151, 125, ! | 
50, 40, 37 , 35 - 
Pancoast—175, 125. 
Scott—140, no, 50, 40. 
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