JUNE 16, 1906.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Fish and Fishing. 
Fly Fishing at Lake Edward, 
So general has been the impression that the 
big red trout of Lake Edward do not rise to the 
artificial fly, that I know of several excellent 
anglers who have not even taken the trouble 
to test the matter at all when fishing the waters 
of beautiful Lac des Grandes Isles, but have 
contented themselves with trolling or bottom 
fishing and have crossed over into some of the 
neighboring lakes and streams for their fly- 
fishing. Kit Clarke and the authorities who 
contributed to Mary Orvis Marbury’s “Favorite 
Flies” their experiences of fly-fishing in Lake 
Edward were alike believed by many to have 
been simply romancing when they described the 
success of certain surface lures on this lake. 
And so because of the growth of this impression 
and because of the facts that the big fish in 
the lake were so easily beguiled with bait and 
troll, and that there was so much easy fly-fishing 
nearby in other waters, scarcely. anybody has 
even attempted to whip the big lake with flies 
for trout for some time past, notwithstanding 
that big fish are often seen rising to natural in- 
sects upon the surface of the water. A few days 
ago, Captain Capp, of London, England, reached 
Lake Edward on his way east from a fishing 
tour across the Dominion, which commenced 
over two months ago in British Columbia. A 
skillful fly-fisherman, he was not disposed to 
accept the popular verdict that it was a waste 
of time, energy and skill to fish the surface of 
the lake with the fly, but resolutely attempted 
to prove the contrary. He fished with some of 
the ordinary casts used by him in other Can- 
adian waters and obtained no rises of any con- 
sequence. He essayed the dry fly and secured 
but a few small fish. This was rather to have 
been expected, for the minute lures utilized by 
dry fly-fishermen are chiefly adapted to the 
chalk streams of the old country and equally 
shallow and clear waters elsewhere. Fishing, 
one day, where he had seen a big fish rise in 
one of the deepest portions of the lake, and 
where the surface of the water was rippled by a 
gentle breeze, the captain tried a large Jock- 
Scott of a standard salmon pattern and met with 
a favorable response. He tried again and again 
with the same success. The big red fellows in 
the water below are not to be treated as finger- 
lings. When they open their mouths it requires 
something to fill them. “Treat us with the re- 
spect due to our rank and size,” they seem to 
say, “and offer us as good an article as you 
would to a respectable salmon, and we may 
entertain your proposition. Otherwise we have 
quite sufficient to engage our attention in the 
deep pools in which we usually linger and are 
not to be seduced by the toy lures which serve 
to amuse and to attract the baby fingerlings.” 
Captain Capp has recently sailed for the old 
country, but his experiences at Lake Edward 
are worthy of recollection and imitation by 
future visitors to the lake. At present there is 
quite a rush of anglers to Lake Edward, and on 
one day last week, no less than sixty guides 
were out with different parties in various por- 
tions of the lake and of the surrounding coun- 
try. Many of these visitors have been fortunate 
enough to see quite a number of heads of big 
game in the woods, and from all appearances, 
moose, caribou and red deer are very much on 
the increase all over that section of the country, 
a fact which should excite no surprise in view of 
the special efforts which have been put forth 
within recent years for their protection... Dr. 
Cole, of New York, who has returned from a 
successful fishing trip upon the preserves of the 
Metabetchouan Fish and Game Club, reports 
that he saw no less than five moose at Lake 
Metabetchouan. Red deer are becoming more 
and more abundant at Riviere-a-Pierre, while 
recent visitors to the preserves of the Jacques 
Cartier Club, which is also upon the line of the 
Lake St. John Railway, report having seen 
several fine specimens of both moose and 
caribou.” 
American Anglers in Canada. 
In addition to Dr. Cole, already mentioned, 

ON THE MICHAGAMIE RIVER. 
Photo by Mrs. Nellie McCourt. 
many American anglers have lately returned 
home from very enjoyable fishing experiences 
upon the limits of the Metabetchouan Fish. and 
Game Club. Dr. Porter and Mr. F. N. Benham, 
of Bridgeport, Conn., spent several weeks on 
the preserve, and among other Connecticut men 
who have been very successful with the trout 
of Lake Kiskisink and the surrounding waters, 
I may mention Messrs. John Davenport, W. R. 
Travers and J. R. Mason. Mr. Lincoln, of 
Pittsburg, and Mr. Fisher, of Washington, have 
lately fished the same waters. 
Mr. George Burgwin Anderson, Consul of the 
United States at Antigua, West Indies, is en- 
joying the fishing at Lake Edward, and Dr. 
Wertenbaker, of the U. S. Marine Service, has 
been very successful in his ouananiche fishing 
in the Ouiatchouan pool at Lake St. John, a 
little below the falls and close to where the river 
enters the big lake. 
All along the borders of Lake St. John the 
ouananiche fishing has continued to be re- 
markaby good, and Mr. G. N. - Walker, of 
Glouster, England, recently took thirty beauti- 
ful fish in one day at the mouth of the Meta- 
betchouan River. Some of these were quite 
large, exceeding ‘five pounds in weight. So 
plentiful have these fish been all spring in the 
lake, that the small boys have been taking them 
quite freely from the wharves at Roberval, with 
the crudest of tackle. 
Salmon are Running. 
The knowledge that the salmon are running 
at last into the rivers emptying into the lower 
St. Lawrence and the Baie des Chaleurs has 
proved the signal for a number of salmon 
fishermen to start for their angling preserves, 
and already quite a number of fishermen are in 
their comfortable camps on the shores of the 
Cascapedia and Ristigouche rivers. One day 
last week two special cars of the down train on 
the Intercolonial Railway were occupied by 
salmon fishermen. Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, the 
famous author, Mr. Cadwalader and Mr. John 
G. Hecksher, of New York, were among the 
party who occupied one car on their way to the 
Cascapedia—the resort of so many millionaire 
anglers. Mr. Dudley Olcott, Colonel Raymond, 
of insurance fame, and his son-in-law, Mr. Max- 
well, were among a party of anglers destined 
for the Ristigouche, while on their way to 
Chamberlain Shoals on the same stream were 
Mr. W. Molson Macpherson, president of 
Molson’s Bank, Quebec, and Messrs. I. H. 
Stearns and Angus Hooper, of Montreal. Mr. 
R. E. Plumb, of Detroit, passed through Quebec 
this week en route for the Natashquan, where 
