260 FISHING IN AMERICAN WATERS. 



and the St. Croix River still retain many marks of his en- 

 campments. The approaches to these grounds are via East- 

 port or Calais, Maine. At either o,f these places the angler 

 will find guides to the aromatic groves which overlook the 

 waters where the white trout disport in shoals of thousands. 



THE WINNINISH. 



" At early dawn, or rather when the air, 



Glimmering with fading light, and shadowy eve 

 Is busiest to confer and to bereave, 

 Then, pensive votary, let thy feet repair 

 To silent lakes, or gentle river fair." 



This fish belongs to the genus Salmo, and tenants the up- 

 per waters of the Saguenay, near the outlet of Lake St. John, 

 in Canada. The fish runs from three to nine pounds' weight ; 

 and as no very young members of the family nor the spawn- 

 ing-beds have. been seen by the habitans and Indians of that 

 region, it is reasonable to infer that they breed farther north ; 

 and as they have a dorsal fin like that of the grayling, it is 

 quite probable that it is the fish written of by an officer of 

 the expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, whose descrip- 

 tion made " Frank Forrester" suppose it to be an American 

 grayling. But it is neither the grayling nor the omble chev- 

 alier, but a rare delicacy of the frozen latitudes of the Cana- 

 dian forests. Professor Agassiz is said to have named it the 

 Northern charr. 



THE WINNINISH. 



The fins of the winninish, being large in proportion to its 

 size, render it very gamy. It sails near the surface, with the 

 top of dorsal and caudal fins in view, and when it takes the 



