. Pleasures of angling with rod and reel for trout and salmon . our river on the Chaleur Bay. — [D. Archie Pell. CHAPTER XIV. SECOND VISIT TO THE CASCAPEDIA WHO MADE DP THE PAETT. Let us to the ancient woods : I say, let us value the are full of solicitations.—\Thoreau. 1 leave the town with its hundred noises,Its clatter and whir of wheel and steam, For woodland quiet and silvery voices,With a forest camp by a crystal stream. —\G. W. Nears. HERE are scores of salmon riversbetween Quebec and Labrador,but they are not all equally at-tractive. In some tbere are butfew fish; in others
. Pleasures of angling with rod and reel for trout and salmon . our river on the Chaleur Bay. — [D. Archie Pell. CHAPTER XIV. SECOND VISIT TO THE CASCAPEDIA WHO MADE DP THE PAETT. Let us to the ancient woods : I say, let us value the are full of solicitations.—\Thoreau. 1 leave the town with its hundred noises,Its clatter and whir of wheel and steam, For woodland quiet and silvery voices,With a forest camp by a crystal stream. —\G. W. Nears. HERE are scores of salmon riversbetween Quebec and Labrador,but they are not all equally at-tractive. In some tbere are butfew fish; in others the fish areuniformly small; in others stillthere are ten grisle to one sal-mon ; in still others the pools areseparated by great distances, andmany of them are subject tosuch sudden floods and such frequent discolo-ration of their waters as to render fishing pre-carious and unsatisfactory, except at such remoteand uncertain intervals as to weary the mostpatient angler. There are, however, a multitudeof rivers in which the fish are large and abundant,13. 98 FLEASUBES OP ANGLING. where the pools are numerous and accessible, wheregrisle are seldom encountered, and where thescenery is as magnificent as the fishing is few of these rivers are within easy reach ofsteamboat, railroad and telegraph (and many of the best of them) are so farfrom these conveniences that business men, whodo not care to put themselves wholly beyond thereach of their correspondents, seldom visit them. Several of both these classes of rivers wereavailable to our party the present season, and itwas not until late in May that it was finally deter-mined to revisit the Cascapedia — the scene of ourlast years exploits, and, taking it all in all, one ofthe very best rivers on the continent. While it isas true of angling as of every thing else, that variety *s the very spice of life, we were all gladwhen this conclusion was reached ; for we had suchpleasant recollections of this
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