PEEFACE. 



On reading the title of this book, it is natural to 

 consider what is " Superior Fishing ? " Is it the 

 good days when fish were plentiful to our utmost 

 heart's desire, days which we have all marked down 

 in our memories never to be forgotten, as the ancients 

 used to set a red letter against them ? or is it those 

 expeditions which have given us the most pleasure, 

 apart from the mere question of the sport ? Or 

 finally, should the designation only be applied to 

 the kind of fish, and the skill of the art applied in 

 his capture ? In truth it can hardly be said to be 

 any one of these, but rather the whole combined. 

 We all have had poor fishing, yet an enjoyable time, 

 or splendid luck with little satisfaction, and we have 

 had right good fun taking inferior kinds of fish. 

 The trip such as I have described to Lake Superior, 

 unites in an eminent degree all these requisites. 

 There was the novelty of the expedition, for the 

 reader will see that it was taken some years ago when 

 travel was more difficult ; the fish were next to the 

 finest the world of waters produces, and they were 

 to be taken in an abundance which would have sat- 



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