268 OTHER FISH AND GAME 



baited with the flesh of the chub or of the whitefish. 

 There are some cases upon record where the namay- 

 cush has taken the fly, but they are not very numer- 

 ous, for even in this northern country it is only for a 

 very short time after the ice has left the lakes that it 

 remains near the surface. In the month of May, some 

 three or four years ago, however, Mr. Lacon Welch, of 

 Quebec, was fortunate enough to thus take a sixteen- 

 pound specimen in Lake St. Charles and to kill it 

 with his trout rod. Dr. Henchey, one of his angling 

 companions, noticed at some distance from his canoe 

 the frightened movement of a shoal of small fish dart- 

 ing from the surface of the lake, evidently to escape 

 pursuit, and drew the attention of Mr. Welch to the 

 fact. The latter had scarcely cast his fly over the 

 place when it was taken by Mr. Namaycush a little 

 below the surface of the water, and nearly fifty min- 

 utes were required to bring him to net. A twenty- 

 pound specimen caught by Mr. Warren Briggs, of 

 Bridgeport, Conn. an expert fisherman in Lake Kis- 

 kisink, was sent to me by that gentleman in the spring 

 of 1893. It is a magnificent fish preserve, this Lake 

 Kiskisink, teeming with fontinalis^ namaycush, and 

 dore, and long shall I remember the lusty brook-trout, 

 of an average weight of a pound and a half, that I 

 was privileged to take on more than one occasion 

 with my good friends the Messrs. Wallace, of Ansonia 

 and Chicago, both in Briggs's Pool at the head of the 

 lake and among the lily-pads a little below its outlet. 

 Only on the Nomantum Club waters have I seen bet- 

 ter catches of brook-trout than in the Kiskisink pre- 

 serve, and they were made by a party of skilled an- 



