288 SALMONIDS;. 



Though unknown in either Erie or Ontario, it is 

 found in all the great lakes lying north of them, and is 

 most abundant near the outlet of Lake Superior. Ex- 

 cepting in the autumn, when it resorts to shallow water 

 for the purpose of spawning, it inhabits only the deepest 

 parts of these immense reservoirs. 



The flesh is red, and very superior to that of the 

 common Lake-trout, though by no means equal to 

 either sea-trout or salmon. 



The Mackinaw-trout will not look at the fly, indeed 

 living at such a depth he is not very likely to see it, and 

 " the spoon" is the only certain attraction. This fish 

 is not always proof against a well-played minnow; but 

 as a rule, does not take any bait very readily. The 

 only successful mode of fishing for it is from a boat, 

 which must be rowed very gently through the water. 



The Sea-trout (Salmo trutta marina), in all respects 

 precisely similar to that of our own waters, and like it 

 called indiscriminately Salmon-trout, White-trout, or 

 Sea-trout, is found plentifully in most of the bays and 

 salmon streams below Quebec, and often in extraor- 

 dinary abundance. In the Ste. Marguerite, already 

 spoken of as a tributary of the Saguenay, in the Port- 

 neuf, the Netagamu, and the mouth of the Manitou- 

 river, on the northern shore of the St. Lawrence ; in the 

 Mount Lewis river on the southern ; in the rivers flow- 



