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twenty-six-ounce rod and dainty flies, so I make war on le petit sau- 

 mon weighing from three to eight pounds with rods weighing from 

 four and one-half to seven ounces, and use the same dainty flies, 

 only smaller Jock Scot, Silver Doctor, Durham Ranger, Cockrobin, 

 etc. Yet do they again and again fail to tempt his capricious appe- 

 tite, for his fancy is fickle and vacillating, worn to satiety like some 

 old gourmet.' 



" At the Fifth Falls I have killed 145 fishes, weighing from three 

 to six pounds, in nine days, and this not counting those stabbed, 

 played, and lost, often after longest fight ; and, at Lac Tschotogama, 

 I have killed the ouananiche as heavy as eight pounds. At Lake 

 Tschotogama, in a small body of water about seven miles long by 

 about two miles wide, I have killed trout weighing eight pounds, 

 ouananiche weighing eight pounds, and pike weighing forty-seven 

 pounds ; ' but that is another story.' " 



Kit Clarke says : 



" Two or three American lakes, to which this piebald champion 

 has been transplanted, know him as the landlocked salmon, but in 

 Lake St. John alone does he display his amazing and obstinate 

 strength, his marvellous finesse, his tempestuous somersaults, and 

 his tremendous fighting qualities. Weight for weight, he is im- 

 measurably the grandest game that has yet fallen to the fisherman's 

 lure. In general outline the ouananiche is a far more graceful fish 

 than the salmon, and in delicacy and in flavor of flesh is infinitely 

 more palatable than either salmon or trout. As a game-fish, afford- 

 ing stimulating sport, and fomenting excitement in its capture, he 

 is absolutely sovereign of the watery kingdom. The sportsman 

 whose hook the first time impales the fish will be dumfounded at 

 the tremendous leaps and fiery struggles of this heroic antagonist. 

 His vigorous contentions are astounding, while at every leap into 

 the air he turns a complete somersault, all the while shaking his 

 head with the fierceness of an enraged tiger. These terrific leaps 

 are so continuous that one seems to be fighting the fish in the air 

 as much as in the water." 



Mr. Eugene McCarthy, in The Leaping Ouananiche^ 

 says: 



