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Rh would be to compile a tedious dictionary of names. All of the towns mentioned as main portals to hunting territory give access also to trouting country, and in some instances to streams alive with land-locked salmon, pickerel, perch, striped bass, gaspereau and greyling. Brook trout are best in the virgin months of summer and fall. Ten pounds, or thirty trout, a day, so we are warned, is the legal limit in Nova Scotia. All non-residents are required to pay a fishing license of $5 in New Brunswick, and all except British subjects pay the same amount in Nova Scotia. F. G. Aflalo in his Fisherman's Summer in Canada says August and September are the best months for promiscuous fishing.

Tuna fishing is a comparatively new sport on the Canadian coast. At Port Medway, on the Halifax and Southwestern road, in Mira Bay, near Sydney, and in Bay St. Ann's, north of Baddeck, this mighty and gamy fish has been brought to shore by hook and line. A fish of 400 pounds is regarded here as a youngster. The record weight registered at the Tuna Club, Catalina Island, California, is 251 pounds. In the summer of 1908, Mr. J. K. L. Ross of Montreal hooked in St. Ann's Bay the first tuna ever angled in Canadian waters. His record fish, taken later, weighed 880 pounds. These Cape Breton monsters are conquered with a very heavy hook, and a 39-thread line, running 300 yards to the reel and having a 12-foot leader