FOREST, LAKE, AND RIVER 



the Mistassini, and the Ashuapmouchouan, may be 

 ascended for hundreds of miles in birch-bark 

 canoes, with Indian guides, with the certainty of 

 enjoying excellent sport in their waters. 



Many other varieties of fish are to be had on 

 these canoe trips. Monster pike (Ksox lucius) inhabit 

 all these rivers, and the pike perch [Stizostedio?i 

 vitreum) is almost everywhere met with hereabouts. 

 Enormous lake trout [Sahelinus namaycush) thrive 

 in the lake expansions of these rivers. Almost all 

 the more northern streams contain a whitefish, 

 closely allied to, if not quite identical with Corego- 

 nus clupeiformis ^ or the whitefish of the great lakes 

 and of commerce. 



In the inland waters of Labrador, the whitefish, 

 which farther south rarely takes the angler's lures 

 at all, is readily caught on the artificial fly, the 

 May-fly having been found quite successful for the 

 purpose. This exceedingly handsome and pala- 

 table member of the salmonidae is found in large 

 numbers in the Grande Decharge, often schooling 

 with the ouananiche, and taking the same flies. 

 The finest tackle is needed for it, and when hooked 

 it aflbrds splendid sport. 



The large gray or lake trout, already referred to, 

 called by the French-Canadians queue fourchee or 

 forked tail, grows to a very large size in Eastern 



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