ANGLING FOR OUAJSTAlSriCHE 



OUANANICHE may be angled for in Canada from the 

 time that the ice disappears in the spring till the 15th 

 of September. The breaking up of the ice may occur 

 at any time from the middle of April till the middle 

 of May, and from a day or two later dates the earliest 

 spring fishing for ouananiche. This is usually at its 

 best in the third and fourth weeks of May. In the 

 spring of 1894, which was an exceptionally early sea- 

 son, it was good in the first week of the month. Excel- 

 lent sport can be had from the very commencement 

 to the very close of the season, but must be sought in 

 different localities at different periods. For the first 

 two or three weeks after the departure of the ice, the 

 fish are taken in large quantities with bait by the 

 residents of Roberval, along the shore of Lake St. 

 John, upon which their village is erected. The bait 

 used by them is generally either worms, pork, pieces 

 of ouitouche or chub, or of the ouananiche itself. Some- 

 times in the spring a few ouananiche may be taken 

 by the fly off the Eoberval shore, but fly - fishing is 

 not usually crowned there with much success at any 

 time, and except in the early spring is rarely effective. 

 Sometimes it has happened, however, as in the autumn 



