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its rapids or intervening pools. But pike are plentiful 

 in some localities, and Mr. Cheney tells of one weigh- 

 ing fourteen pounds that he caught on a spoon in Au- 

 gust, 1894, in a pool out of which he had just taken 

 a ouananiche weighing three and one -half pounds. 

 "Bather queer tenants," adds Mr. Cheney, "of the 

 same pool, for a tandem of such ouananiche could 

 have gone down the throat of the pike without touch- 

 ing a fin at the entrance-gate." And he refers to the 

 incident in Forest and Stream to show the ability of 

 the fresh-water salmon, once it has grown to fair size, 

 to take very good care of itself so far as predatory 

 fish are concerned. Both the instinct of self-preserva- 

 tion and the ability to take care of itself must indeed 

 be highly developed in the ouananiche of Lake St. 

 John, in view of the immense numbers and size of the 

 pike inhabiting its waters. These and other neigh- 

 bors of the ouananiche are treated of at greater length 

 in another chapter. 



From the middle of August to the end of the ouana- 

 niche season, on the 15th of September, larger fish, if 

 fewer in number, are taken in and about the Decharge 

 than in the latter part of July and commencement of 

 August. The fine fly-fishing of the heated term again 

 gives way to the use of somewhat larger flies, and at 

 this season of the year I have done fairly well with 

 the McCarthy ouananiche fly, something of a cross be- 

 tween a Jock Scot and Silver Doctor, beautifully tied, 

 and given me by Mr. Eugene McCarthy, of Syracuse. 

 Some fish were tempted, too, by the Mead fly, a pretty 

 representation of a yellow-bodied insect in an imago 

 state, obtained by Mr. Cheney from Portland, Oregon, 



