182 FISHING WITH THE FLY. 



Mackinaw trout, salvelinus namaycush, was abundant and 

 took the fly with as much vigor as any salvelinus fontinalis 

 (I believe that these are the correct names unless some 

 new professor has changed them to-day). We could 

 not tell which we had struck except from a flirt of the 

 caudal fin. The " well-forked " caudal fin of the Macki- 

 naw trout was frequently distinguished by our guides at 

 a great distance. They do not play toward the surface 

 so much as the brook trout. They were fat and lazy, 

 two or three long runs generally wearied them so that 

 they led peacefully into the net. 



In the small lakes connected with this river there are 

 plenty of pike. We took several with the spoon on our 

 trip through Lake Hannah. They were very numerous 

 in the small bays of shallow water within a mile of wild 

 rapids where trout were equally abundant. This is the 

 first water I have fished that contained both pike and 

 trout. Small fish of several kinds were so abundant that, 

 when we wished to try bait, we had no difficulty in 

 taking "shiners" with a quick swoop of a fine-meshed 

 landing-net near the shore. 



I took one small black bass at the mouth of the brook 

 just below Camp Alexander. It was the first one that any 

 of our party had ever heard of in the Nipigon waters. 



With such abundant ever-flowing water so stocked with 

 game fish and their prey, there is not the slightest dan- 

 ger that the fishing in this river will be spoiled so long 

 as the bites of mosquitoes, sand flies, and black flies are 

 painful to men. 



