246 OTHER FISH AND GAME 



the ouananiche a fresh- water species that has ac- 

 quired the sea-going habit ? 



Of many fruitful trout waters north of Lake St. 

 John, more frequently in the lakes and smaller streams 

 with which the country is interlaced than in the large 

 northern feeders of the great lake where the ouana- 

 niche abound, something has been said already in 

 the chapter devoted to a description of a number of 

 round trips by canoe and portage routes. More are 

 being discovered every year. Reference has also been 

 made to the capital fly-fishing to be had a few miles 

 east of Roberval in the Ouiatchouaniche. In the lower 

 Ouiatchouan, handsome speckled trout are very often 

 secured in the dark pool immediately below the great 

 falls, less than a mile distant from the famous spring 

 pool for ouananiche at the mouth of the river. Lac 

 de la Belle Riviere, south of Lake St. John, and within 

 easy distance of the railway, affords perhaps the finest 

 trout-fishing of any unleased water in this section of 

 the country. The catch of two anglers here, in 1893, 

 in the space of four hours amounted to two hundred 

 and twenty-five trout, of which eleven weighed three 

 and a half to four and a half pounds each, and the bal- 

 ance from three-quarters of a pound to two and a half 

 pounds each. I know of very few other unleased 

 trout waters in this section of country where this 

 fishing can be equalled, but it can be repeated in any 

 number of lakes and rivers leased to clubs and private 

 individuals, between Quebec and Lake St. John, either 

 on the preserves of the Montmorency Fish and Game 

 Club, the Tourilli, the Triton, the Metabetchouan, the 

 Penn, the Nomantum, the Amabalish, the Ouiatchouan, 



