SALMON AND TROUT FISHING IN CANADA 



is probably no water to equal the rapids of the Hamilton above the great 

 falls in the interior of Labrador. The journey thither is a long one, and is 

 only made with the assistance of Indian guides, but it is a trip of a lifetime, 

 and one of which any angler may well be proud. It is safe to say that 

 the large majority of the lakes and streams of eastern Canada afford good 

 fishing for this trout, which is really the common fish of the country. 

 Both tackle and flies used in Canada are, as a rule, much coarser than 

 those used on English trout streams. 



Closely allied to fontinalis, but an even more gorgeously coloured fish, 

 especially after donning its nuptial livery, is Salvelinus marstoni, so called 

 after Mr R. B. Marston, editor of the "Fishing Gazette." It is somewhat 

 slimmer in shape than fontinalis, and has a decidedly forked tail, whilst 

 the caudal fin of the American brook trout is a square one. It is much 

 sought for by anglers, but is very much more scarce than fontinalis. It 

 has been taken, however, in such widely separated localities in the province 

 of Quebec as Ottawa, Maskinonge and Rimouski counties, and in some of 

 the lakes between Quebec and Lake St John. 



Chiefly important as a food fish, Cristivomer namaycush, the large coarse 

 char commonly known as the grey trout,* forked tail trout or great 

 lake trout, is trolled for in deep water by many anglers with heavily leaded 

 lines, more on account of its large size and its splendid dietetic qualities 

 than for the sport which it affords, for it makes comparatively little resist- 

 ance when hooked. It has a forked tail, and is marked with grey instead of 

 with red spots. It is very widely distributed throughout the Dominion, even 

 more so than fontinalis, and in the great lakes attains a very large size, 

 specimens having been caught from sixty to eighty pounds in weight. Both 

 in Lake Nepigon and in several lakes of the province of Quebec it has been 

 taken weighing as heavy as forty pounds. It is trolled for both with spoon 

 and gudgeons. 



Of the salmons of the Pacific coast only two — ^the Spring or Tyee 

 Salmon (Salmo onchorhyncus or Onchorhyncus quinnat) and the Cohoe (Oncho- 

 rhyncus kisutch) — are of special interest to anglers in British Columbia. 

 The first -mentioned is the fish known in Oregon as the Chinook, in Cali- 

 fornia as the Quinnat, and in Alaska as the King or Tyee. All the British 

 Columbia salmon, including, as well as those above-mentioned, the 



'Formerly classed with Salvelinus, this fish has now been placed in a separate genus Cristivomer, distinguished 

 from the true chars by the stronger armature of the mouth in the shape of a bone carrying teeth behind the head of 

 the vomer and free from its shaft. — ED, 



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