BROOK TROUT 



Wahwanichi, a beautiful mere about the size of Lake 

 Edward, namely, twenty miles long by one to three 

 wide. 



In the Hamilton River, above the Grand Falls, in the 

 interior of Labrador, there is, according to Mr. Low, the 

 well-known explorer, the finest trout-fishing in Canada 

 — all large fish, none under three pounds, and from this 

 to seven pounds, and plenty of them in all the rapids. 



Several of the rivers flowing from the north into Lake 

 Superior also contain very large trout. Professor Ram- 

 say Wright, of the University of Toronto, is authority 

 for the statement that specimens of Salvelinus fontinalis 

 have been secured in the Nepigon up to seventeen 

 pounds in weight. Accessibility to an abundant food 

 supply and a deep cold-water habitat contribute very 

 materially to the rapid growth of all the trouts and chars, 

 and the Nepigon River and the lakes by which it is fed 

 contain large quantities of whitefish, while the water 

 is so cold that its average summer temperature is not 

 much above forty degrees. The fish have therefore no 

 reason to keep down in the lowest depths of the river, 

 and they consequently rise freely to the angler's flies. 

 The best fishing is to be had there from the middle of 

 July through the months of August and September. 

 The river is rather more than thirty miles long to the 

 Great Lake Nepigon at its head, and is broken by fit- 

 teen chutes or falls, at the foot of all of which there is 

 excellent fishing. The average width of the river is 

 two hundred yards, but it has several large lake expan- 

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