The Land of the Winanishe 



are several large round black spots. As 

 the water grows warm, the bright hues 

 get dull, and toward autumn the rusty red 

 color and hooked lower jaw of the spawn- 

 ing salmon develop. As the winanishe, 

 unlike the salmon, feeds continuously, and 

 in much heavier and swifter water than 

 salmon He in, it has a slimmer body and 

 larger fins, so that a five-pound winanishe 

 can leap higher and oftener than a grilse, 

 and fight like a ten-pound salmon. The 

 variety of its habits, which are a com- 

 pound of those of the trout and those 

 of the salmon, with some peculiarities of 

 its own, gives great charm to winanishe- 

 angling, and opportunity for every style, 

 from the "floating fly" on tiny hooks to 

 the " sink and draw " of the salmon cast. 

 It takes the fly readily when in the hu- 

 mor, though wary and capricious, like all 

 its relations, and fights hard, uniting the 

 dash of the trout with the doggedness and 

 ingenuity of the salmon. 



In railway and hotel prospectuses, the 

 winanishe weighs from five to fourteen 

 pounds. In Lake St. John and the De- 

 charge, the average is two and a half; 

 four-pounders are large, and not too plen- 

 tiful, while six-pounders are scarce. The 

 winanishe is, however, much longer than a 

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