LAND-LOCKED SALMON, ETC. 



" With foam and splash tumultuous 



It dashes on its wav, 

 Past black, basaltic ledges, 



Past boulders, moss'd and gray ; 

 Now dark it sleeps in shadow, 



Mid overhanging woods, 

 And now reflects the heaven 



In cool transparent floods." 



It is now conceded, beyond question, that the land-locked salmon in 

 its structure and natural character is almost identical with the true 

 salmon, from which it differs but little except in size and the habit — nat- 

 ural or acquired — of remaining in freshwater throughout the year in- 

 stead of making an annual pilgrimage to the sea. Many of the lakes 

 and rivers inhabited by land-locked salmon have dire^F^and easy outlets 

 to the sea, but the fish voluntarily remain, in most instance^ near the 

 place of their birth. n 



In size the fish range from two to seven pounds, though occas^nally 

 a heavier one is taken. The list of local names by which it is kii«pwn 

 would puzzle a novice. In Maine it inhabits the systems of the Sebec,\St. 

 Croix, Presumpscot and Union rivers— the latter a tributary of tlje 

 Penobscot — and the fish is known in that region as the Sebago SalmoA, 

 and the Schoodic Salmon; these titles indicating the lake and river most, 

 frequented by the land-locked salmon. In the Lake St. John and Upper 

 Saguenay region of the Province of Quebec, the popular name is the 

 \Vi|giieiishe, W^ananishe, or Ouinaniche. Mr. Eugene McCarthy, a prac- 

 : ffcal authortty on the subject, accepts and adopts the latter appellation in 

 tiis boOl^ " The Leaping Ouananiche." The species is also found in the 

 lakes (Si Labrador, New Brunswick, Ontario and Nova Scotia, in which 

 latter^j^ province the fish is strangely enough called the "^ra^hr^g^^al- ^ 

 though the resemblance is almost wholly imaginary. 



Re'g?ir^fTtg the'g'ariiie qualities of the ouananiche, it is a fish equal to 

 its kindred the --ea salmon, so called, due allowance being made for the 

 superior size of the latter. Mr. J. G. Aylwin Creighton, a careful ob- 

 server, remarks that while watching a fish hooked at the head of Isle 

 Maligne, round which the fiercest rapids of the Grande Decharge sweep, 

 ^ll4iS^ profoundly impressecl with the remarkable strength and pluck of 

 «the ouananiche. Standing thirty feet above the water the angler could 

 see the fish plainl}', in the clear stretches between the white-crested rollers, 

 fighting its course up a series of inclines with straight steps of three to 

 foin- feet.atL^^op of each^ ant] then, after resting a moment on the sum- 



