FISHING AT HOME AND ABROAD 

 foam-flecked water eddying round the rocks or birch-bark canoe, when 

 the ouananiche are leaping.* So violent are the rapids, so heavy the water, 

 that it is scarcely safe to fish from a canoe with less than two guides. 

 Very often the ouananiche, swimming around the pools among the rapids, 

 watching the opportunity to snatch the flies entangled in the foam, keep 

 so near the surface of the water that their dorsal fins protrude from it 

 like those of a school of sharks. If the fish are on the feed, a judicious 

 cast of the angler's lures is likely to secure an immediate rise. As soon as 

 a ouananiche (pronounced wananiche) is hooked the angler knows all about 

 it. There is not a moment of uncertainty. Almost before he has had time 

 to wonder at the length of line that is being run off the reel, a bright arched 

 gleam of silver darts out of the water, perhaps a hundred feet away from 

 the canoe, and deliberately turns a somersault a foot or two up in the 

 air. The ouananiche rises to ordinary salmon flies, and Lake St John, 

 where the best of the fishing for it is to be had, is reached by rail from the 

 city of Quebec in about eight hours. The fish is also to be found in many 

 of the streams of the Canadian Labrador. 



In no part of the continent, probably, does Salvelinus fontinalis, commonly 

 known as the American brook trout, attain to so large a size, or don a 

 coat of so many glorious hues, as in the cold northern waters of the country 

 north of the St Lawrence. Fifty miles due north of Quebec as the crow 

 flies, and in the heart of the Laurentides National Park, is Lake Jacques 

 Cartier, the main source of the river of that name. In the outlet of this 

 lake, a fontinalis measuring thirty inches in length and weighing nearly 

 ten pounds and a half was taken in September, 1912. Lake Jacques Cartier 

 is very difficult of access, but specimens of fontinalis almost as large as 

 those taken out of its waters have also been caught in Lake Edward, 110 

 miles north of Quebec by railway, and also in some of the lakes and rivers 

 draining the territory lying between Quebec and Lake St John. Many 

 of these fine char rival the specimens taken out of the famous Ontario 

 trout streams flowing into Lake Superior from the north, of which the 

 most noted are the Nepigon and the Steel rivers. The Nepigon, which 

 carries off the surplus waters of Lake Nepigon, is a noble stream, and the 

 monster fish which are played and killed in its rapid water test the angler's 

 skill to the utmost. For very large fontinalis in enormous numbers there 



•The ODananlche has been asii^ned speoific rank as Salmo ouananiche, but it is very doubtful whether it is more 

 than a ieojraphical variety of the salmon or the trout. It is certainly a distinct race; but the term "landlocked 

 salmon," usually applied to it by English writers, conveys a wrong impression. There is nothing to hinder these fish 

 from going to the sea if they wished to do so. — ED. 



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