LAND-LOCKED SALMON 



"On, in our birch canoe we listless float, 

 Now in the sunshine, now in shadows lost, 

 Where great Spruce Mountain casts its inky 



shade, 

 And the dim depths seem fathomless. 



"A wild duck, startled from the cove, sweeps by; 

 Zigzag a kingfisher flies, shrill-screaming, past; 

 From up the lake come hoarse cries of a crane, 

 And melancholy wail of lonely loon. 

 All these the boatman notes with dreamy sense, 

 And then anon he takes his tapering rod 

 And casts his feather' d lures with skillful hand; 

 He takes the lordly salmon and the trout 

 That in the watery abysses float." 



HPHE land-locked salmon, as the 

 * name implies, is to all intents and 

 purposes identical with the salmon of 

 the sea the migratory game fish so 

 eagerly sought as it ascends the Cana- 

 dian streams of the St. Lawrence re- 

 gion the species inhabiting the in- 

 land lakes differing mainly in the fact 

 that for some reason the early pro- 

 genitor^ remained in fresh water, and 

 this has finally become the natural 

 habitat. The local names applied as 

 a rule, in Maine, to conform to the 

 lakes in which they are found, seem 

 confusing to the novice. A few of 

 the titles used are the Penobscot 



