ANGLING 



immediate rise. As in salmon fishing, the ouan- 

 aniche angler will often best succeed when his 

 fly is somewhat below the surface of the water. 

 Sometimes, like the salmon and large brook trout, 

 the ouananiche will impale himself upon the 

 hook without any assistance from the angler. It 

 is always safer, however, to strike, as in trout 

 fishing, when a ouananiche is seen to rise. Here- 

 in is the principal point of difference between 

 angling for salmon and for ouananiche, for every 

 salmon fisherman knows that to strike when a 

 salmon rises to his fly is simply to drag the fly 

 away from him. 



As soon as a ouananiche is hooked the angler 

 knows all about it. There is not a moment of 

 uncertainty. " Almost before you have ceased 

 wondering at the length of line that is being run 

 off your reel, a bright, arched gleam of silver darts 

 out of the water a hundred feet away from your 

 canoe, as suddenly as an arrow shot from bow, and 

 deliberately turns a somersault three or four feet 

 up in the air. If you are a novice at the sport, 

 or he has taken you unawares, you may never see 

 him more. If he managed, by his superior dex- 

 terity and cunning, to get the slack of the line, he 

 probably shook the hook from his mouth and is 

 free. If, in your excitement, you gave him the 



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