. On the headwaters of Peace River : a narrative of a thousand-mile canoe trip to a little-known range of the Canadian Rockies . A MORE IDEAL SPOT FOR THE SPORT COULD NOT BE FOUND IN A DOZEN An Arctic trout—they are a shapely fish with a long black fin. DESERTERS CANYON 135 Before lunch was ready I had caught eight in all, run-ning, I should say, from three-quarters of a pound to apound and a half. With this the supply seemed to beabout exhausted, as after lunch I managed to land onlyone more. These fish, in fact, are rarely caught exceptat the mouths of rapid streams or in swift ri
. On the headwaters of Peace River : a narrative of a thousand-mile canoe trip to a little-known range of the Canadian Rockies . A MORE IDEAL SPOT FOR THE SPORT COULD NOT BE FOUND IN A DOZEN An Arctic trout—they are a shapely fish with a long black fin. DESERTERS CANYON 135 Before lunch was ready I had caught eight in all, run-ning, I should say, from three-quarters of a pound to apound and a half. With this the supply seemed to beabout exhausted, as after lunch I managed to land onlyone more. These fish, in fact, are rarely caught exceptat the mouths of rapid streams or in swift ripples, andit does not take long to fish out such a river as theFinlay. By the time that the Finlay valley contains athousand settlers, arctic-trout fishing will probably bepractically a thing of the past. From the way the hills pinched in ahead, from thegreat rock masses in the river, and from the increasingheight of the walls that hemmed the river in, we judgedthat the canyon could not be far distant, and so the eventproved. First came a narrow passage with steep con-glomerate cliffs on either side, but through this passage,though the current was swift, we were able to make ourway with the c
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