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Title: Rod and gun
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Canadian Forestry Association
Subjects: Fishing Hunting Outdoor life
Publisher: Beaconsfield, Que. (etc.) Rod and Gun Pub. Co. (etc.)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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sh. The sturgeon ran into ourcollecting nets at night, and they tookbait on set lines. One even took a smalltrolling spoon on the salmon rod one dayat noon, and made a long and praise-worthy fight. Sometimes we foundbeaver mice in their stomachs, and I ar-gued from that that the sturgeon wouldprobably take a large fly, as the beavermice are always swimming about on thesurface in reedy places. We ate stur-geon boiled, broiled, fried, roasted andpicked up. The food upon which anyone sturgeon was feeding seemed tomake a difference in the flavor, for he isa specialist when feeding, and we usuallyfound one sort of food exclusively orpredominating at any one place alongour course. Sturgeon that were feedingupon crawfish were the best; next camethose that choose the little clams (Sphoe-ium) while the least desirable were feed-ing upon the larger snails (Cdrdium,Lymnoeii and Planorbis.Reprinted^ liuth the original illusirations, by permission, frivn ■■Forest and Stream. (to ee continued.)
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Good Fishing and Camping Points. BY STRAW HAT. aOME of the fishing along the lineof the Canadian Pacific Railwaythis year, and particularly the troutfishing north of Montreal is better thanusual. The Sportsmans Show at Mon-treal brought to the fore a number ofguides who knew of virgin waters butwho had kept the knowledge to them-selves. This accounts for it. From Haileybur), Ont., (near Cobalt)and on the way there trom TemiskamingStation, one can reach good fishing wa-ters for trout and bass at many points. In the northern country the prospect-ing between Temagami and Sudbury,Sudbury and Port Arthur and Sudburyand the Soo, has made known a greatnumber of fishing lakes, and also openedtrails to them. The opening up of the back countrynorth of Kaladar around Bon Echo Innhas made known to the world some fish-ing lakes that had been lost sight of.Bon Echo Inn is a very comfortableplace at $2 a day and upwards. It isreally very nice for ladies of the mostfastidious tastes. The elevation an

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