Fish and Fishing 



which forms the River Saguenay; it also thrives in 

 many of the rivers that flow into the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence and in the rivers of Labrador. 



This fish loves rapid and turbulent waters, and 

 because of the life it leads, it is beyond doubt, for 

 its size, the most vigorous and athletic fish that 

 inhabits northern waters. It will leap from the 

 water seven or eight times after being hooked, and 

 with the greatest rapidity rush down below one 

 hundred feet. A fish weighing three to four 

 pounds will make a fight lasting from ten to fifteen 

 minutes. 



Its food consists mostly of flies, which it picks 

 from out of the foam that lies in blankets, some- 

 times forty to sixty feet in extent, washed down by 

 the swirling flood moving round and round below 

 the rapids. In such pools the ouananiche is 

 fished for with fine but strong tackle, and nothing 

 but flies are used. 



In the fall it takes a small minnow, but the cream 

 of the fishing is from June 15th to July 15th. At 

 the Grande Decharge, it is fished for from a canoe 

 handled by two Canadian guides, or, on some of 

 the small islands that rise up steep from the water, 

 the angler casts his flies from the rocks above and 

 the guide nets them. Twenty fish is the limit on 

 one rod per day, and they weigh from four to 

 seven pounds, the average size being two pounds, 

 though specimens have been caught up to nine 

 pounds. 



The Sebago salmon, of Maine, is a similar fresh- 

 water species and is found in the lake of that name. 

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