A PKELIMINAKY CAST 



THIS book of the Onananiche is the result of repeated 

 requests to the author for a treatise upon the fish and its 

 environment on the part of many anglers and others who 

 have been among the readers of his contributions to the 

 pages of periodical literature. What has been hitherto 

 published respecting the ouananiche has been more or 

 less fragmentary. The book is the outcome of years of 

 observation and study in the Canadian home of the ouana- 

 niche. It contains brief records of the experiences and 

 opinions of many of those best qualified to speak of the 

 fish, and especially of its game qualities and geographical 

 distribution. It also embodies references to all that is 

 of special interest in the literature of the subject, and 

 the author is unconscious of having overlooked any 

 previous writer or article of note in connection there- 

 with. 



An extended investigation, not only of the fish and its 

 habits, but also of the Indian lore respecting them, has 

 enabled the author both to discard much mere myth and 

 to abandon some few theories advanced in his earlier 

 writings, at a time when present opportunites for travel 

 and observation in the land of the ouananiche did not 

 exist. Popular fallacies respecting the fish, that have 

 existed for many generations, are still perpetuated in 



