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Title: With fly-rod and camera
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Samuels, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1836-1908
Subjects: Fishing Fishing
Publisher: New York, Forest and Stream Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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oy-age gave me a pretty good idea of the capabilities of thelake in getting up heavy seas, some of them breakingclear over the boat. I do not remember of ever beforebeing out in such rough water in so small a boat, andit almost seemed at times as if we were likely to beswamped. The cars now run to the village of Roberval,and a trip in the steamer is not necessary. It is trulya vast body of water, nearly fifty miles in length, andfrom twenty to forty in width. Emptying into it are, Ibelieve, eleven large rivers, besides many smaller streams.I had but little time to explore any of these rivers, andvisited but three or four. Two of these, the Periboncaand Ashuapmouchouan, are of great size and length. The Peribonca has been, I am informed, ascendedby Indians and trappers something like six hundred miles.At its mouth it is of about the width and volume of theConnecticut River at Springfield. For quite a distanceit is navigable by steamer, and its inflow into the lakeis something enormous.
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t-;,.-,^-^ ^^^ OUIATCHOUAN FALLS, NeAR LaKE ST. JoHN, P. Q. 428 With Fly-Rod and Camera. The AsliLiapmouchouan River is also a very largestream. At St. Feliciennc, which is, I think, about tenmiles above the lake, I found the river to be of aboutthe size of the Merrimac at, say, midway between Law-rence and Haverhill, or about the size of the Restigoucheat its junction with the Matapedia, perhaps a little larger.Now with this enormous lake, and with all these riversemptying into it, there is practically an unlimited watersystem, which undoubtedly furnishes the best possible con-ditions for the preservation, growth, and wide and gen-eral diffusion of the SalmonidcE that here find a home.Establishing this fact at once in my mind, I of coursemade inquiries of every one who could give me any in-formation, and learned from all sources that the winninishare very abundant in the lake in early June, and evenearlier if the ice melts about the shores, and the fish aretaken readily with bait, an

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