Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-26

traverse and fetraverse all the pools save those under private ownership. Surfeited by so much attention, the ouananiche gives himself airs and be- comes exclusive. Some distance below there are few pools less frequented, which are sometimes profitable. Be- low thls again the best pools are taken by Canadian fishing club. In a word, go to the Grande Decharge by all means, If you have time, but go for scenery rather than for fish, unless your visit can be made in late June or early July.
 This brings me to the out1t. By a1r means wear woolen underclothing and warm durable clothing. Knickerboclx- CTS with heavy woolen stockings and high, substantial shoes are most serv- iceable, while the hat should provide plenty of shade for the eyes. Take 8 durable rubber coat but eschew rub Der boots. Tar oil and hoods are needed for flies. Pack your changes of underclothing, stockings and shoes, toilet articles, tobacco and all your per- sonal belongings in sailors l1it-bag, made of canvas which should be made waterproof by treatment with linseed oil. One end has a handle and the other can be securely laced up. You can sit upon it with comfort and can carry it with ease. Your rods should be in 6 canvas or leather case. As for food the primary staples are pork, bread, sugar, salt and tea.
 Thus equipped you embark on lit- flo 1oOripu cta with xro,,r Ipd;o.er engaged from the reservation at Pointe Bleue and in Q couple of hours you are off low sandy shore where you are told the mistassini debouches into the lake. The canoe is swung over the side and loaded, the Indians lrneel at bow and stern. and you sit amidships on the bottom and presently your beau tiful craft is dancing over the water and the wilderness is before you and you have begun to live. There are few rough farms in the low country through which you pass at first. Per haps you will camp in clearing, but with very early start and with active men it is possible to reach the Fifty falls of the mistassini at night. The lower river is monotonous, but there is
 
 delay-at the four portages where the great river pours down huge lodges in foaning torrent. Everything is un- loaded and as you step from the canoe on the ledge and wave catches you on the calf you realize the mass and volume of water be- hind this perpetual unrest. One Indian swings the canoe up on his shoulders, steadying it by strap around his forehead and the other loads himself down with the outfit and you with your rods follow them across a shelving ledge of gray and reddish rock veined with brilliant quartz, over fallen logs, up moss grown natural stairway, through an evergreen forest, where partridges gaze at you in fear less wonder and presently out on another sloping rock platform above the cataract. At one place it is neces- sary to cross the current between two falls which are quite close together, and at high water l have seen as pretty a bit of canoeing here as one could wish. But the best is to come. The. great Fifth falls is a miniature Mi agara in it's general divisions, and ap- preaching from below you disembark and climb up to an island which corre- spends roughly as to site with Goat is land. There you may sit at your tert door looking down '7ith a long stretch of foaning and tossing water framed by dark green forests with the river laundering over the main falls at your right and sending up clouds of rides cent spray and the smaller falls dash ing over the red and white cliffs on your left No more beautiful camping place has gladdened my eyes in the course of wide experience, unless I except camps on the Hanks of the fairest of our mountains, Tacoma. But fisher man who has jcurneyed hundreds of miles for a new experience is apt to postpone scenery. In the morning the fish are apt to approach the foot of the falls to feed on the flies caught in the foam. When the water is very high they may be caught,off the foot of cliff op- posite the camp. You may Ash from the rocks or from the canoe, according to the conditions. Let your fly sink beneath the surface and draw it along with a succession of slow pulls-not with one smooth continuous motion on the surface. Suddenly there is firm, hard resistance, and at your answering strike a bar of glistening silver shoots upward four feet from the water and then the scream of the reel rouses you from your bewilderment. The fish darts far out into the river and leaps again and again. and then bolts toward you, and, perchance, flies gaily over the canoe. have stood upon ledge three or four feet above the water, but not out of reach of the restless waves, and my ouananiche has leaped up to