164- SALMONID^. 



and the long-finned Charr {Salmo Alipes), are fonnd in the 

 small lakes and rivers of Boothia Felix, but as that far northern 

 peninsula is utterly beyond the reach of the most determined 

 angler, it is useless to give them more than this mere passing 



notice. 



The Masamacush is, on the contrary, within easy reach of all 

 who are willing to travel distances, without incurring either risk 

 or fatigue, in pursuit of their game, and is found, moreover, in 

 the very waters which afford the greatest variety and the 

 highest attractions to the scientific fly-fisher, in their abundance 

 of Salmon, Salmon Trout, and Brook Trout. It is also a bold 

 and daring biter, voraciously seizing a bait of sucking carp, pork, 

 deer's heart, or the belly of one of its own species affixed upon 

 a cod-hook. " We took many at Fort Enterprise, in March, in 

 gill-nets set under the ice," says Dr. Richardson, "in the 

 neighbourhood of an open rapid by which the waters of Winter 

 Lake were discharged into a river that remained frozen up until 

 June. At that time their stomachs were filled with the larvse 

 of insects. During the summer this fish is supposed to retire 

 to the depths of the lakes, but it reappears in smaller numbers 

 in the autumn, and is occasionally taken in the winter in nets, 

 but seldom by the hook, except in the spring. The spawning 

 season is in April or May, judging from the great development 

 the spawn then acquires, though the spawning beds are 

 unknown to us. The Masamacush attains a weight of eight 

 pounds, but begins to spawn before it weighs more than two or 

 three." 



Dr. Richardson does not state whether this fish will take the 

 fly or not, but as it is not the general habit of the non-migratory 



