FOREST, LAKE, AND RIVER 



nipeg, the Ojibway Indians plant four or five sticks 

 round the hole in the ice, which they are careful 

 to keep open with their hatchets. A squaw, no 

 matter how cold the day, will throw her blanket 

 over her, hurry to the hole in the ice, cast her 

 blanket over the sticks, crouch beneath it, and be- 

 gin- to fish. In half an hour, she will probably 

 have half a dozen dore or wall-eyed pike. 



My late lamented friend, A. N. Montpetit, 

 author of " Les Poissons d'eau douce du Canada," 

 used to tell of a remarkable experience he once had 

 in fishing for pike-perch in a little lake near the 

 River du Milieu, a tributary of the St. Maurice in 

 the Province of Quebec. With only a piece of 

 pork skin upon a blunt hook, he captured a score 

 of fine fish, averaging two pounds each, when 

 finally his bait was carried away. For want of a 

 more suitable lure, he baited his hook with a berry 

 plucked from a neighboring shrub, and to his sur- 

 prise had another bite and saved the fish. He 

 repeated the experiment several times, - with the 

 same result. 



The best sport with this fish will be had by the 

 use of ordinary trout tackle, when fly fishing, and 

 of a light trolling rod, when using the spoon or 

 phantom minnow. The rod used for trolling for 

 trout in large lakes is quite heavy enough for troll- 

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