Excerpt from The Game Fishes of British Columbia Returning to the trout of the Province. The writer does not know of any lake or stream within its boundaries from which the angler may not at some season of the year fill the largest of creels in a day's fishing. In many of the smaller coast rivers and streams the season is limited to a few weeks in the spring. And again in the fall after the first heavy rains. Though an expert angler may succeed at any time in taking a few big ones from any of the large streams. On the larger rivers and lakes of the interior the seasons vary somewhat. Depending chiefly upon the spring and early summer freshets. Either just before or just after high water is considered the best season for angling the streams; very few of the lake feeding streams can be successfully fished during high water. In the big lakes. Like the Kootenay. Okanagan, and Shuswap. The best trolling is to be had in June and july. Formerly the great Okan agan Lake afl'orded rare sport during the winter months to the angler who wanted big fish. But the present law provides for a closed season from November tsth to May ist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.