MANOIR RICHELIEU 
Hotel and Cottages 
MURRAY BAY 
Province of Quebec, Canada 
An exclusive summer resort where the best 
American and Canadian families go year after 
year. Overlooks the tidal waters of the lower 
St. Lawrence, where the sea breeze mingles with 
the pine. 
Cuisine unexcelled—every comfort provided— 
salt water swimming pool, tennis, saddle horses, 
billiards, etc. Private golf course for the guests 
of the hotel. Complete immunity from malaria 
and hay fever. Hotel reached by Canada Steam¬ 
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FISHING FOR BLACK 
BASS 
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ful act, but it enhances its value for 
the table, rendering the flesh firmer, 
sweeter, and of better color.” 
Ignatius was capable of admiring 
the Professor’s humanity, but he was 
most attracted by his wonderful skill. 
His grace and deliberation, though nat¬ 
ural and inborn to a certain degree, 
were chiefly the result of many years’ 
devotion to the rod and gun and the 
practical study of the habits of fish 
and game. There is more symmetry 
of form and natural grace of motion 
among the aboriginal races of the 
world, trained to the pursuit of ani¬ 
mals on land and water from childhood, 
than among the civilized and enlight¬ 
ened; our brains are developed and 
fostered at the expense of our bodies; 
therefore, the nervous, jerky, impa¬ 
tient, and impetuous man will never 
make a truly successful angler nor a 
really good shot, though he may attain 
to a certain mediocrity in both sports. 
At the next cast the Professor fas¬ 
tened a two-pound bass to the “polka,” 
and while giving him play another bass 
of the same weight took the “Lord 
Baltimore.” As these fish kept down¬ 
stream, the full force of the current 
was an additional factor of resistance 
to the rod, which seemed to Ignatius 
to bend nearly double, and caused him 
to say: 
“You will have a hard time to land 
them both, Professor!” 
“Not necessarily, for although the 
weight is greater, they, together, will 
not play much longer than a single 
fish, if so long; for they are pulling 
against each other. It only remains 
for me to hold them by the spring of 
the rod and let them fight it out.” 
His method of landing them was 
unique: Holding the net a few inches 
beneath the surface, he .first drew in 
the bass on the stretcher-fly; then, as 
he turned up the lower or down-river 
half of the net-rim to the surface, he 
let the bass on the bob-fly drop back 
with the current into it, and lifted out 
both. 
Ignatius proceeded farther out into 
the stream, but parallel with the shelv¬ 
ing rock. Then selecting a minnow 
four inches long, he passed the hook 
through the lower lip and out at the 
nostril. Reeling up his line to the snell 
of the hook, and with his thumb on 
the spool of the reel, he turned his 
left side to the riffle below; then swing¬ 
ing his rod to the right, the minnow 
nearly touching the water, he made a 
sweeping cast from right to left and 
from below upward, starting the min¬ 
now on its flight just before the tip 
' of the rod reached its greatest eleva 
tion, by relaxing somewhat the pres- 
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