. Montreal province of Quebec Canada . Lake St. John country. Within a ride of an hour or two of Montreal, black bass,dore and maskinonge fishing can be obtained which wouldwarm the heart of the average angler. Brome lake, near Knowlton, is famous for its largeblack bass; Lake Memphremagog, partly in the Provinceof Quebec and partly in Vermont, for large grey trout andpickerel. The waters in this latter section are well filled withspeckled trout. Again, there are various points on the Ottawariver where bass and maskinonge fishing is unexcelled, thelatter running up to sixty pounds in weight. T
. Montreal province of Quebec Canada . Lake St. John country. Within a ride of an hour or two of Montreal, black bass,dore and maskinonge fishing can be obtained which wouldwarm the heart of the average angler. Brome lake, near Knowlton, is famous for its largeblack bass; Lake Memphremagog, partly in the Provinceof Quebec and partly in Vermont, for large grey trout andpickerel. The waters in this latter section are well filled withspeckled trout. Again, there are various points on the Ottawariver where bass and maskinonge fishing is unexcelled, thelatter running up to sixty pounds in weight. To the north of Montreal, in what is known as the region, are literally hundreds of lakes which aboundwith fish. An advantage here, also, is the fact that practicallyany point in the district may be reached in a days journey. CANADA ^5 In the autumn,red deer, part-ridge and duckalso abound inthis section, andhere are to beseen vast stret-ches of countryin which the set-tler is unknownand where thewood-mans axehas yet to ring. Windsor St. Station, Canadian Pacific Railway, The Highlands of Ontario, already referred to. arereached by the northern division of the Grand Trunk Railwayrunning from Toronto to North Bay. The lake country pre-sents unrivalled facilities for hunting, fishing and district, east, known as the Haliburton region, butincluded in the high altitude of the Highlands, is the hauntof some of the largest speckled trout on the continent, runningas high as eight pounds each. The domain occupied by the fish and game cover somany hundreds of thousands of acres, that no one need feelthat his pet pool or favorite lake will be infested by a crowdof eager, and perhaps noisy, sportsmen. Then again, thequantity and quality of the sport is in accord with the widedomain. In the cold waters of these northern lakes andrivers, not only do the fish thrive, but grow larger and gamier than in any other section ofthe continent. A well-knownwriter on fishing i
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