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locked salmon have taken the fly when it has been 

 offered, but that, so far as he can learn, it has rarely 

 been presented to the fish for their acceptance. In 

 May, after the ice goes out of Sunapee, and well into 

 June, the landlocked salmon are at the surface of the 

 water, but nearly every one fishes for them by cast- 

 ing a smelt bait or trolling a spoon, and as this suf- 

 fices to take many fish, the fishermen are satisfied 

 with their methods, and the fly is not cast for them 

 except on rare occasions. And Mr. Cheney cites a 

 number of instances in which the fish have risen to 

 the fly in these lakes, in the month of May and in 

 the early part of June. After that, they seek deeper 

 and cooler water, and the Canadian ouananiche would 

 doubtless do the same were it not for the continued 

 low temperature of the water which it inhabits, es- 

 pecially in or near heavy rapids. 



On the other hand, testimony is not wanting to 

 the game qualities, even in the heat of August, of 

 the American fish transplanted into Canadian waters. 

 I take these paragraphs from a letter addressed to 

 the Quebec Morning Chronicle by Mr. W. P. Green- 

 ough, of Portneuf, P. Q., under date of August 4, 

 1895: 



" Some of your readers may be interested to know that I am now 

 assured that the landlocked salmon, the fry of which I planted in 

 the spring of 1892, have lived and thrived. Last week I caught 

 one of about one-half-pound weight, and yesterday one of one and a 

 half pounds. The first was too small to display very much of the 

 characteristic gameness of this fish, but the latter was unmistakable 

 in that respect, as well as in color and markings. His leaps out of 

 the water and his furious rushes were those of the ouananiche of 

 Lake St. John. . . . Three times he jumped fully two feet into 



