A TROUTING TRIP TO ST. IGNACE ISLAND. 



BY 

 W. THOMSON 



Towards the end of August, 1877, I had become 

 pretty well fagged out with office work and felt that I 

 must have a week or two of out-door recreation or 

 sport of some kind, so I naturally decided upon a trout- 

 fishing expedition ; and I selected, as the scene, the 

 island of St. Ignace, in Lake Superior, of which I had 

 heard most excellent accounts in regard to fish prod- 

 ucts. I had, it is true, caught a great many brook 

 trout throughout the summer, in small streams close at 

 hand ; but these were mostly fish of inferior size, few 

 indeed reaching one i^ound in weight ; while I was as- 

 sured by an ancient fisherman of repute, that at the 

 Island, the real Salmo fontinalis often attained to four, 

 five, and even seven pounds. 



This was the kind of ground I had been, for many 

 years, anxious to find, and I made up my mind to try it 

 at all events. 



The first thing to do was to secure two suitable com- 

 panions, and a man or boy of all work. The former I 

 quickly enlisted in the persons of a genial M.D. and an 

 overworked limb of the law. The latter opportunely 

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