The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-09
MIR. VALLEYS RETURN
4 SEVEN WEEKS FISHING TRIP IN THE CANADIAN ACKNOWLEDGES.

His Experience in Catching the Leaping ouananiche-Large Catches of Trout and Other Flsh-An Exciting Trip Down tho Grand Discharge in Birch Bark Canoe. Edward Malley is back from his an- nual fishing trip. The scene of his ang- ling expedition for 1896 was the Adiron- dacks of Canada and the home of the famous leaping Ouananiche. MT. Nal ley with his family, and accompanied by MT. George White of this city left here on the 2Sd of July intending talk ing six or seven weeks sojourn through the various fishing tributaries of the queens dominions, but were so sport that could be had there that they made the Hotel Roberval their home for the trip.
 As Lake St. John, it's tributary wa ters and famous fish are not so well known to the majority of anglers as 
 and condensed description of the places visited by Mir Malley and his com pany.
 HAUNTS OF THE OUANANICHE. Away to the north, nearly two thirG.s Of the distance from New York to Hudr sons Bay, lies the home of the Ouan- aniche, the weird and picturesque Lake St. John and its tributary waters.
 J,,av ;erlot 1;,,ne North Pole over the face of the map, one from New York and the other from Boston, they will form the westerly and easterly boundaries of the only terri tory in which you need expect to find a Ouaninche. To the south and to the north this sportsman's paradise is bounded by the forty-eighth and forty ninth parallels, respectively, of north latitude. How do you get there? No wonder you ask this question: for up to year or two ago the only means of communication between this vast ter ritory and civilization was long In- dian pathway, blazed through the woods, or by waterways traversed by the inevitable bark canoe Now, the mysterious inland sea that the Indians call Pikouagami, and that we know as Lake St. John, is reached by daily parlor car service that runs to the northern terminus of one of the most northerly railways in America, nearly two hundred miles in length, through the wild mountain fastnesses and prim- eval forests that fill in almost the whole of the intervening country between the old city of Quebec and the home of the Ouananinche.
 THE HOTEL ROBERVAL,
 Where the party put up, is situated on the westerly side of the lake. It has a frontage of 1S0 feet overlooking the lake, and has accommodations for three hundred guests. The cuisine is unsurpassed, and the rates are from s3 to $5 day, which include all the fish ing privileges. The house and grounds are illuminated with the electric light
 GRAND DISCHARGE.
 These rapids are formed by the ac- ton of Lake St John in pouring its surplus waters into the marvellous Sa- guenay, and continue With brief inter- ruptions to Chicoutimi, forty miles dis tant, and the head of steamboat navi- gation. On a beautifully wooded island at the head of the Rapids of the Grand Discharge, twenty-five miles straight across the lake from Roberval, and un- der the same management, is the Is land house. It has a westerly aspect, and commands a splendid view of the lake and islands of the Grand Dis charge. For richness of coloring in natural scenery, there is scarcely any, thing to compare with the view of the setting sun over Lake St. John as seen from the Island house, unless it be the rising sun as seen across the same body of water from the Hotel Roberval.
 Both the French and Indian voy- ageurs of Lake St. John make splendid guides, and they are nowhere more at home than in steering their frail birch bark canoes through the rushing whirling, seething rapids of the Dis charge and in bringing the angler tc the edge of the scum-covered eddies dotted with insect life, where the hun- gry Ouananche lies in ambush below waiting to spring upon his prey, as soon as his favorite fly floats around They are magnificeptly wild, these rap ids. and 1t is a thrilling sensation tC shoot them in the various channels that wash the Thousand Islands of the great lakes outlet, with nothing but the un- tutored skill of the dusky guide, and 8 sheet of birch bark, between you an6 eternity.
 Yet you may as safely leave the con- duct of your canoe through the foam ing waters to your voyageur guides as you would your horses to your coach man in the streets of Boston or New York. Nay, you are very much safel here Street accidents are numerous in all our large cities, but none iS known to have occurred to life or li1nt in the exciting rapids of the Grant Discharge.
 If you are novice at the sport, youl voyageurs will guide. you in the selec' ton of the proper fly, and in the mos probable locality for a cast.
 Mr. Malley's experience of shooting the rapids is one which he says he vii never forget. It was only after dea of persuasion from his friends that MT Malley could be induced to take hi' seat in the frail looking birch canoe He will drive the fastest horse tha ever paced a mile through the mos crowded streets of our city withou either fear or trepidation, but to trus himself on the placid waters of Lak' St. John with a dusky Indian to steei the frail little bark in safety was on