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entitled to the preference ; yet, for bottom fishing iu rivers, when 

 they are discolored by floods or turbary water, a line very lightly 

 tinted with walnut stain I have no objection to; or for pool fishing, 

 while the weeds continue green, if the bottom link be very lightly 

 tinged with the logwood dye, it may aid the deception." 



The gut of which the casting-line for ouananiche is 

 composed should be good, strong salmon gut, and for 

 the end of July and the August fishing as fine as is 

 consistent with strength. On account of the difficulty 

 of taking a large, lively fish into a birch-bark canoe, 

 and because of the awkward places ashore, where it is 

 often necessary for the guides to land the ouananiche, 

 I find it useful to employ a somewhat longer handle 

 for my landing-net than is customary. 



You can get more than ouananiche in many of the 

 oily pools of the Decharge by dry fly-fishing. There 

 are numbers of whitefish there, and in warm, balmy 

 weather they may be seen basking in the sun upon the 

 surface of the water. They do not take the fly very 

 freely, and when they are hooked must be very ten- 

 derly played, lest the hook be torn from the mouth. 

 They are usually only taken, too, upon very light 

 tackle. I have had them afford me splendid sport, and 

 have also known of specimens having been taken here 

 by Mr. Floyd, of Boston, and Mr. W. A. Griffiths, of 

 Quebec. These are the Coregonus clupeiformis, and 

 not to be confounded with the coarse chub or ouitouche 

 of these waters, a most abundant species here, known 

 scientifically as Semotilus bullaris. In mentioning 

 other neighbors of the ouananiche in the Grande 

 Decharge I may say that trout are few and far be- 

 tween. Only very occasionally i&fontindUs taken in 



