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and even nine pound trout have been taken out of 

 Canadian waters, and there are stories of very 

 much larger ones which I have been unable to 

 confirm. The Nepigon in Ontario, and the Bat- 

 iscan, the Jacques Cartier, Kenogami, and Lake 

 Edward in Quebec, as well as the Montmorenci, 

 the Ouiatchouan, the Jeanotte, and the Moise 

 rivers, are amongst the most favored waters for 

 large brook trout this side of the international 

 boundary. 



Lake Batiscan, on the Triton Tract, has yielded 

 several fish from eight to nine pounds in weight, 

 in the spring of the year, to American anglers, 

 many of them, it is true, taken upon trolling lines, 

 though there are fishermen who claim to have 

 taken equally large ones here with the fly, in 

 some cases the large coarse fly known as the 

 Moose tail, and looking much like a tuft of that 

 animal's hair. This fly is principally used for 

 trolling behind a boat on a long line, some dis- 

 tance below the surface of the water. 



Undoubtedly very large specimens oi fontinalls 

 are taken every autumn in the Moise and other 

 waters of the Triton Club, on the ordinary trout 

 fly, and immense trout, running from four to 

 seven pounds each, in the brilliant coloring of 

 their spawning livery, fall victims to the fly rod- 



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