ANGLING 



IN CANADIAN WATERS 



AT the head of the American angler's 

 list of fresh-water game-fishes stand 

 those species of the salmonidae which 

 *- thrive the best in cool, clear, crystal 

 waters, such as are nowhere on the American con- 

 tinent cooler, clearer, or more crystalline than in 

 the Dominion of Canada. 



The various members of the salmon family are 

 conspicuous amongst the finny tribes, as well for 

 the quality of their delicious flesh as for their 

 splendid fighting powers, elegance of coloring, 

 and symmetry of form ; but more so than any 

 others of the family is the Salmo salar, or common 

 Atlantic salmon, which Cuvier has appropriately 

 placed at their head. 



For some time after the European settlement of 

 North America, salmon abounded in the Hudson, 

 the Connecticut, and almost all the more northerly 

 streams flowing into the Atlantic. The fish wealth 

 of these rivers, which had survived the supposed 



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