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journey for the great majority of anglers to 

 reach them. Ofttimes both is the case. Nova 

 Scotia perhaps affords the most available of this 

 fishing for most anglers. 



The salmons, with the exception of the ouana- 

 niche (win-na-nish) "a fierce-fighting, prodig- 

 ious-leaping fresh-water and smaller understudy 

 of the Atlantic salmon," often inaccurately 

 termed "landlocked" migrate periodically from 

 river to the sea, and back again for the purpose 

 of reproduction. The ancestral home of the 

 ouananiche is Lake St. John in the Province of 

 Quebec. Some there be who will tell you that 

 the absolute quintessence of angling enjoyment 

 is afforded the expert in the attempt to land 

 this little salmon from swift water on a barb- 

 less fly. Dr. van Dyke has thus apostrophized 

 him for all time: 



"Here let me chant thy praise, thou noblest 

 and most high-minded fish, the cleanest feeder, 

 the merriest liver, the loftiest leaper, and the 

 bravest warrior of all creatures that swim! 

 Thy cousin, the trout, in his purple and gold 

 with crimson spots, wears a more splendid armor 

 than thy russet and silver mottled with black, 

 but thine is the kinglier nature. His courage 

 and skill compared with thine 

 'Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine.' 



The old salmon of the sea who begot thee, long 



ago, in these inland waters, became a back- 



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