. Rod and gun . An Engineers Camp. On the Line of the National Transcontinental, Northern Quebec. 996 ROD AXD GUX IX CAXADA it in the bushes. We were lucky from the sunlight. We had no landing net, the start, a lusty trout of a pound or but there was no hurry, and we enjoyed more jumping at each fly almost as soon all the fun there was in the game. As as it touched the water, and we were at is very often the case in these northern once enjoying the exquisite pleasure streams, there were two distinct kmds. known onlv to those who have a good of trout, and one was as iikelv to catch fish safely
. Rod and gun . An Engineers Camp. On the Line of the National Transcontinental, Northern Quebec. 996 ROD AXD GUX IX CAXADA it in the bushes. We were lucky from the sunlight. We had no landing net, the start, a lusty trout of a pound or but there was no hurry, and we enjoyed more jumping at each fly almost as soon all the fun there was in the game. As as it touched the water, and we were at is very often the case in these northern once enjoying the exquisite pleasure streams, there were two distinct kmds. known onlv to those who have a good of trout, and one was as iikelv to catch fish safely hooked, and light tackle tofight him with. They were a livelybrand of trout, and fought desperately,jumping frequently and shaking thecrystal drops from their bright sides in one kind as the other. One was thedark, chunky fellow, with a good deal ofscarlet in his make-up, the trout we knowin the Ontario brooks; the other clipperbuilt, with silvery sides, much after the FISHING IN NEW WATERS 997 pattern of a sea trout and seem-ingly just a little more go in himthan the first-mentioned. In the after-noon we explored the stream for somedistance below the lake, and found thetrout quite as plenty though somewhatsmaller in size. The descent of thewater was very rapid, and there werenumerous falls of considerable height,below one of which we saw scores oftrout, many of them trying to jump tothe higher level. Quite tame they were,and though we sat on the bank a fewinches away, the continued to leap up in-
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