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Fish’ and Fishing. 
More Salmon Taken in Lake St. John. 
Two or three salmon, at least, are already re- 
ported to have been taken in. Lake St, John this 
spring by parties fishing for ouananiche. What- 
ever doubts there may have been as to the iden- 
tity of some. of those reported, there can be no 
mistake about the last one, of which I have been 
notified. This fish weighed over. ten pounds, and 
no ouananiche that has been taken within my time 
has exceeded seven or eight pounds in weight. 
From the number of salmon. which have now 
been taken in Lake St. John and tributary waters, 
there seems to be no doubt that the newly im- 
ported family now in that lake are there to stay. 
Whether or not they will propagate there, and 
if they do; whether or not they will return to the 
lake if they do run down to sea, are problems 
that have yet to be solved; but there is now no 
doubt that so long as the fry from the hatchery 
continues to be prudently planted in the water 
of streams running into the lake, there will be 
adult fish in the neighboring waters for some 
years thereafter. , 
Early ouananiche fishermen ‘have certainly had 
no cause of complaint this season, the sport in 
the lake having been quite good up to a week 
ago, At present thte water is falling and the fish 
have consequently moved into the upper part of 
the Discharge, where the best sport of the season 
ought soon to be had. The Island House was 
opened a few days ago and Mr. Donaldson, of 
Pittsburg, and. a party of friends have started 
for “the chosen waters.” The Island House is 
under new management this year, Mr. Marcoux, 
the former manager, having been retained at the 
Hotel Roberval, in charge of the guides, the out- 
fitting and the sportsmen’s intelligence depart- 
ment. As all recent visitors to Lake St. John will 
admit, something of this kind has long been 
needed there. 
Just as surely as the ouananiche season comes 
round again, | am inundated with letters inquir- 
ing about the best localities for taking the fish, 
the names of the most tempting flies, with the 
most useful sizes of the same and the names of 
some of the best guides. I have tried to reply 
to as many of these inquiries as possible by per- 
sonal letters, though it consumes considerable 
time, and if any have been overlooked I -hope 
they will accept the general information on the 
subject that | endeavor to furnish in this column, 
being assured, as I am, that there must be many 
sportsmen looking for exactly the same informa- 
tion as others have written about. ,In regard to 
locality, I do not advise any angler to spend time 
fishing for ouananiche in Lake St. John itself, 
after the date that this article will have appeared 
in print, unless it be off the mouths of some of 
the northern feeders of the lake, or within a 
comparatively short distance of the Grand Dis- 
charge. Between Isle Ronde and the Island 
House, and among the islands at the head of 
the Discharge, there will doubtless be fishing for 
some weeks to come, as well as in the heavy 
rapids and swirling pools immediately below the 
big falls or Grand Chute of the Grand Discharge. 
The last week of June and the first three weeks 
of July are considered the best for this sport, 
and later the fish may be followed further down 
the Discharge or up the rivers Peribonca, Mis- 
tassini, Ashuapmouchouan, or some of their many 
tributaries. 
For the June and early July fishing in and 
about the Grand Discharge, I am a believer in 

medium-sized salmon: flies of any of the standard © 
patterns, but preferably the Jock-Scot, silver- 
doctor or silver-gray. The size of the fly must 
largely depend, of course, upon the brightness of 
the weather, the clearness of the water and the 
character of the rapid’ or pool which is being 
fished. It the water in the latter be very heavy 
and dark iri color, and the weather cloudy, the 
flies may be as large in the early part of the 
season as number three. For clearer water and 
brighter weather I prefer my flies tied upon ‘num- 
ber five and ntimber six hooks,’ and later in the 
season I have often had the best’ sport 
number eight. Sometimes the ‘ouananiche is less 
of an epicure than his ¢lose congener, the salmon 
of the sea, and will’ even ‘prefer a well+tied pro- 
fessor, grizzly-king’ or ‘brown-hackle to the 
Forrest- made’ salmon flies’ that cost’ as much per 
fly as the others’‘do per dozen. Particularly’ is 
this true of the’ midsummer and later! fishing ‘in 
the Grand Discharge. 
of employing’ salmon flies howadays in the Lake 
St. John waters is the chance that always occurs 
of hooking a salmon. 
It is' a difficult task to attempt to give the | 
names of the best guides at Lake St.’ Johni. ‘Th 
the first place they are divided into two classes. 
At Roberval,’ the gttides who are usually secured 
there for ascending the various rivers flowing’ 
into the lake, are chiefly Montagnais Indians. 
At Grand Dischatge, on the other hand, they are 
all French-Canadians. I know many good men 
in both classes, but I have reason to believe that 
numbers. of others’ are jttst aS’ good as’ those 
whom I'am best acqtiainted with, and so I pre- 
fer not to run the risk of doing injustice to any- 
one, even inadvertently, by designating any of 
them as better than’ others. I may say, “however, 
that I have had good proof of the skill, ability 
and trustfulness of John Morel and his sons, 
John Lessard, the Savards and others at the 
Grand Discharge, while among the Indians of 
Roberval I have had faithful service from Pros- 
pere Clairey, Patrick Clairey, John Minnegouche, 
Joseph Simeon, Noe Nepton and others whose 
names I do not at present recall. 
A Monster Fish. 
A monster fish got tangled up the other day in 
one of the.salmon nets on the opposite side of 
the Baie des Chaleurs from Dalhousie. 
was about ten feet and its weight in the vicinity 
of a thousand pounds, and it was dead when 
found. I have not’ been able*f6 obtain a very 
good description of it, but some of those who 
have seen it express the belief that Heise Tate 
what (Monodon monoceros), 
sea unicorn, from the fact that it often has a tusk 
half as long as itself. The animal ts seldom met 
with so far south as the Baie des Chaleurs, being 
an inhabitant of the Arctic seas, and rarely found 
even as far south as the Shetland Isles, though 
occasional specimens have been seen in British 
waters, 
More ‘Salmon Fishermen. 
A distinguished party of anglers passed through 
here a day or two ago on their way to Metis 
to fish the salmon waters of Lord Mountstephen 
at that point, Jn the party were Mr.. W. G. 
Rockefeller, son of Mr. William and nephew of 
Mr. John D. Rockefeller; Mr. J. A. Bloss, of 
New. York; Mr. G, Farrer, of London, a member 
of the banking firm of Baring Bros; and Mr. Ig 
W. Sterling, who represents Lord Strathcona and 
Lord Mountstephen in New York. . 
The Moisie party left. for its camp,on the river 
by the. steamer King Edward on the 13th inst. 
Mr. Ivers. W. Adams, of Boston, the lessee of 
the river, was accompanied by Mr. Henry Samp- 
son, of New. York. Later on, Mr. Sampson will 
be joined by his son; Henry Sampson, Jr., and 
Mr. Adams by his two sons, Ivers and. Walter. 
Mr. Peter Mackenzie has leased the fishing of 
the Little Trinity for the current season to. Ad- 
miral , Montgomery. 
With the exception of Mr. R. E. Plumb, of 
with | 
Of course, the’ advantage’ 
_on'their ‘way to fish the Riviere a la Truite, 
Its length ; 
sometimes called’ a 
Detroit, who sailed by the King Edward on the 
13th inst: for the Natashquan, most of the party 
whofish that famous river only left Quebec by 
the steamer Aranmore on the 16th inst., and ex- 
pect to be there in plenty of time for the first 
run of fish. The steamer service to the north 
shore of the Gulf is much improved this year, 
being performed by two’ regular steamers, the 
King Edward, which leaves Quebec every Wed- 
nesday for Natashquan and intermediate points, 
and the Aranmore sails every alternate Satur- 
day for Sydney and Halifax, calling, both going 
and feturning, at Esquimau Point and_inter- 
mediate points. On her last trip from Quebec 
the Aranmore carried over twenty salmon fisher- 
men. The Natashquan party included Mr. F. S. 
Hodges, of Boston; Mr. and Mrs. Chapman, Mr. 
and Mrs. Carman and Mr. J. K. Williams, of 
New York, and Messrs. J. W. and R. W. John- 
son, 0f New Brunswick, N. J., while Messrs. Geo. 
Clarke and C. S. Davison and Miss Davison are 
near 
Moisie. Morton Paton, of New York, and party 
are bound for the Trinity, and A. G. Nesbitt and 
party, of New York, are going to the Mingan. 
Mr. W. B. Mershon, with his son and party, 
have gone down to the Metapedia fishing grounds. 
Others who have left for the same waters are 
Mr. ‘Phillip Schuyler, of New York, and Mr, C 
G. Carteaux, of the Polytechnic School, Beat 
lyn. 
Mr, Gard T. Lyon and the Rev. Dr. Henry Van 
Dyke are now on their preserves on the Marguer- 
ite River. Last year'these two gentlemen were 
the most successftil members of the Ste. Marguer- 
ite Salmon Club. Dr. Van Dyke killed thirty- 
eight fish in three weeks, only seven of them dur- 
ing his first week’s fishing. Mr. Lyon, who 
arrived a little later on the river, killed just the 
same number of fish as the doctor during the next 
two weeks, namely thirty-one. 
Mr. Walter M. Brackett, who leases the north 
branch of the Ste. Marguerite, called in to see me 
on the 13th inst. on the way down to his river, 
where he is accompanied by Mr. Henry Russell, 
of Detroit. The thirteenth was the veteran 
angler’s birthday, and thirteen has not turned out 
to be at all an unlucky number for Mr. Brackett. 
It was his 83d birthday, and he was as bright 
and happy and alert at the idea of getting off to 
his summer camp for a counle of months as any 
schoolboy could be on the eve of his holidays. 
He certainly does not look a day older than he 
' did ten years ago. Mrs. Brackett, as usual, accom- 
panies her husband to camp. 
E. T. D. CHAMBERS. 
Cayuga Lake Fishing. 
Apvices from Cayuga Lake, New York, are to 
the effect that some of the largest pike and pick- 
erel taken at the Ithaca end of the lake in years 
have been caught there the past spring. Pike of 
16lb. weight have been taken upon ordinary fish- 
ing tackle. At Union Springs perch have been 
biting freely, and not a few good creels of pike 
and pickerel have been taken, with the prospect 
that the fishing will grow better as the season 
advances. M. CHI. 
Adirondack Trout. 
3LUE Mr. Lake, N. Y., June 12.—The fishing 
has been magnificent in this vicinity, both in the 
lakes and in the streams. Many fine catches. of 
trout are reported. A young lad caught a talb. 
lake trout on a light red, and not having a net in 
the boat pulled ‘the big fellow alongside, and 
putting his fingers in_the trout’s mouth, hauled 
him into the boat. Result, sore fingers, but a 
proud boy. Just now the weather is very cool, 
and some are joking about winter. JUVENAL. 
