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lake within three months fnnn the eommenceinent of the 

 movement. The youn^ fry of tliis tish ha.s been exaniined by 

 Prot'essor .\j;a.ssi/, and fonnd to possess the same hiteral bands 

 or markin;xs whieh were formerly Ijelieved to be pcenliar to the 

 Parr alone, but uhieh are, in all prol)ability, eomnion to evi-ry 

 species of the family o( SuImonidiP. 



l>iirinir its stav, at the spawning season, in the shallow 

 i-hanncls between the iiinnmi'rable islands, the Xaniaycnsh is 

 speared by torchlifjht, in j^reat (jnant itics, by the Indians — a 

 ernel and wasteful di'vastation, \\Iiicli, thou^di it eannot be 

 wondered at in the mitntored savage, cannot be reprehemled 

 too severely when pnietised, as it is universally, by the civilised 

 white man, for purposes of reckless sport or illicit and dis- 

 honourable gain. In the fur countries they are sometimes 

 taken in the autumn with nets; but the season when it is 

 captured in the greatest abundance is in the months of March 

 and April, during which it is taken by th()usands on cod-liooks, 

 baited witli small fish set in holes cut throu^'h the ice, in eight 

 or nine fathoms water. It will not be amiss liere to state, that 

 when the ice is fornn-d of snow partially melted and rccongcaled, 

 so as to be oparpu", presenting an appearance like that of 

 ground glass, neither this nor any otln r of the Trout tainily 

 will take the bait. 



During the mid-summer and nud-winter months the Macki- 

 naw Salmon is rarely seen or captured, as during those .seasons 

 it lies in the deepest waters jn the c<Mitre of the great lakes, so 

 that it can Ik* fished for only with n drop-line and heavy 

 pliunmrt at an extraordinary depth, in a manner similar to that 

 practised in dccp-sca fishing. 



Of the more scientific and exciting methods of angling for 



