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its surplus waters are drained by the Peribonca, 

 which, in turn, receives them from the River des 

 Aigles. My tail fly was taken with a splash that 

 seemed to betoken heavy trout at the end of the 

 line. After offering very fair resistance, a two- 

 pound pike-perch was brought to net. It was not 

 what I was fishing for, but its delicious white meat 

 afforded a very pleasant change from the rich red 

 flesh of the brook trout, upon which our party had 

 been mainly subsisting for a week before. After 

 that Colonel Haggard, D. S. O., who was my 

 angling and canoeing companion, caught several 

 of these fish on his fly tackle, and, in his descrip- 

 tion of it in the "Encyclopedia of Sport," pays 

 ready tribute to its game qualities. 



Some of the dore taken by us in Lac des 

 Aigles weighed over six pounds. They attain a 

 much greater weight, however, sometimes exceed- 

 ing twenty-five pounds in Canada. Dr. Bull is said 

 to have taken one in the Kentucky River which 

 weighed fifty pounds, and Dr. D. C. Estes caught one 

 of forty pounds in Lake Pepin. They have been 

 taken out of Lake Kiskissink, on the line of the 

 Lake St. John Railway, over sixteen pounds each. 



It is not alone in Northern Canada that this fish 

 takes the fly. A correspondent of the " American 

 Angler " wrote some time ago from Southern Wis- 

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