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glers, including Messrs. George E. Hart, of Waterbury ; 

 Wallace Durand, of Newark; Miner Drake, of Torring- 

 ton, Conn., and J. L. Atwood and Charles Turner, of 

 Waterbury. 



But to return to Salvelinus namaycush. I have 

 before me a letter addressed to me from Winnipeg 

 upon the 24th September, 1892, in which my friend 

 Lieutenant-Colonel Haggard recounts his phenomenal 

 success with the lake-trout in Lake Nepigon, and the 

 amusing story of the Indians how they employed 

 their teeth in aiding them to lift the heavy fish out of 

 the water. The colonel writes : 



"I had very good fishing up the Nepigon in the headwaters, 

 both in the river at Virgin Falls and in the lake, as far as the lake- 

 trout were concerned, but did not do much with the speckled trout. 

 The largest I got of the latter was four pounds in weight. As far 

 as the lake-trout fishing goes I believe I had a phenomenal day. 

 On a shoal three miles out in the lake I got, in about three hours' 

 fishing, one hundred and forty-eight pounds of lake-trout. The 

 two largest were thirty-two pounds and thirty pounds respectively. 

 The Indians with me said they were the two largest they had ever 

 known caught by a white man, and on such small tackle, too. I 

 caught them all that day on a small brown phantom minnow of 

 Chinic's, that I bought when with you, and with a single gut leader. 

 The Indian at the bow of my canoe could not get hold of the gills 

 of the two monster trout to drag them in when wearied out, as 

 they kept their heads down and they were very long. Consequent- 

 ly he got hold of the tail and pulled it up to his mouth, caught 

 hold at the roots with his teeth, then, putting his arms as far round 

 the slippery body of the fish as he could reach, dragged these two 

 whales in. The weight of the thirty-pounder broke off half its tail 

 in the man's mouth at the first bite, and he got back in the water 

 again, but still on the hook. The next grip was more successful, as 

 he bit lower down." 



By the Montagnais Indians the lake-trout is known 



