. Rod and gun. g out ofthe spout and the cream going down histhroat. Our next move was to Thessalon onthe north shore, a great saw-mill townwith good hotelsbut no fishingexcept after along drive. One goodplace I struckwas BasswoodLake abouttwelve miles inthe country. Itwas a splendidplace but I hadhad enough bassfishing. I heardof a lake twelvemiles farther onnamed BurrowsLake, and thereI went. I hadexcellent troutfishing there,camping on theshore. A pecul-iar thing I dis-covered at thislake that I neverknew beforewas that thetrout would notbite in the daytime. We builta large fire on the rock
. Rod and gun. g out ofthe spout and the cream going down histhroat. Our next move was to Thessalon onthe north shore, a great saw-mill townwith good hotelsbut no fishingexcept after along drive. One goodplace I struckwas BasswoodLake abouttwelve miles inthe country. Itwas a splendidplace but I hadhad enough bassfishing. I heardof a lake twelvemiles farther onnamed BurrowsLake, and thereI went. I hadexcellent troutfishing there,camping on theshore. A pecul-iar thing I dis-covered at thislake that I neverknew beforewas that thetrout would notbite in the daytime. We builta large fire on the rocks close to the water in the even-ing and caught very fine trout, averagingtwo pounds, but the mosquitoes werefearful so we did not stay long but wentback to Thessalon for a weeks rest. It was here that I got the first inklingof deer and from that time on I kept myears open so as to know where to squatwhen that most interesting season open-ed. It was now getting on towardsSeptember and as I wanted to again visit. Photo Marshall. THE GUIDE the Blue Jay we turned our course south-ward and again called at Gore Bay, andafter a weeks stay, hired a team anddriver who took us to Providence Bay onthe south shore of Manitoulin Islandtwenty-five miles. From this point astage crosses the Island to Manitowaningand passes the Pyette place. We arrivedhere about September twelfth, only acouple of days before trout fishingclosed. David Pyette took me down the streamin a buggy about seven miles where there are deepholes and talkabout largetrout ! I neversaw the like ofthem. We onlyfished at inter-vals for we hadno use fcr thetrout but onlytried to see howlarge a fish wecould get. Wecould see thembut they wereslow to bite. Icaught onemeasuring overall twenty-oneinches in length;the girth I haveforgotten. I remaineduntil some timein October part-ridge and weremore plentifulthan partridgesalthough I kill-ed a good manyacross a flock of1 emptied IN THE TENT. of the latter.
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