The first fifty or sixty miles of the return journey are almost all plain sailing, presenting comparatively few portages. Leaving Elsas, via the Nemgosenda River, the first is encountered twenty miles beyond the village at Twenty-Foot Falls and is only 35 yards long. This first stretch upstream from Elsas lies through Pine Lake all of which is lovely water but not to be recommended for its fishing owing to lumbering operations some years ago. Five miles above the Falls, however, where four small portages are necessary around some rapids, there i good angling fe wall-eyes. And no fisherman should mis: the sortie into Paul Creek to the left where speckled beauties thrive in its spring-fed pools.
From Paul Creek, the remaining eleven miles of Trout River to Trout Lake offer smooth going to this fishermen's paradise And Trout Lake is just that, offering lake trout, wall-eyes and particularly large northerns with such prodigality that your sporting appetite will become jaded in no time at all. This delightful reach of water is seven miles long and three miles wide and can "cut up rough" on squally days. But the camp sites are both numerous and good so that there is adequate refuge against bad weather. In the southern end of the Lake are two islands beyond which the shores are a riot of raspberry "stands" providing a luscious feeding ground for the bears that are prolific in this part of the country. Keep your camera eye cocked All streams emptying into the north side of Trout Lake yield speckled trout in satisfactory numbers, but can only be taken by bait fishing since the forests crowd the banks so densely that the fly is out of the question, except in Alice Creek at the portage into Loon River; where marshlands permit whipping the stream.
Up the Loon River through Twin Lakes and another half mile portage into Round Lake and others, very short, inti West Lake and Lo Blanc Lake, where some tackle-smashing "northerns'" lurk in the blessed with an exceedingly fine shore line, and proffers better than average fishing for lake trout and great northerns. As may be expected in such surroundings, some very desirable camp sites are to be found, and for the angler in particular a leisurely day or so spent encamped here will profit him no end.
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