OTHER FISH AND GAME 277 



sweet, cold water of these high latitudes well main- 

 tains whatever degree, of firmness and flavor may be 

 claimed for its flesh. Some of the upper lakes which 

 are emptied into the Bastican and other large inland 

 streams are entirely free from chub, which are barred 

 from ascending them by intervening falls ; but, again, 

 I have marked their existence in waters fully as high 

 above the sea-level as those of the Batiscan, both in 

 feeders of the Kiskisink lakes, and at various points 

 of the Peribonca River between Lakes St. John and 

 Tschotagama. Here, however, its increase is some- 

 what regulated by its large consumption as food by 

 the ever hungry specimens of that water - wolf, the 

 pike, that in these waters attain to so enormous a 

 size. These chub, often erroneously called gudgeon 

 by both American and Canadian anglers, are known 

 to the French-Canadian and Indian guides hereabouts 

 as ouitouche they are usually cast away with disgust 

 by the angler whose hook has impaled them. It is 

 one of the most shapely of the cyprinoids, resembling 

 very much in form the fall fish or silver chub of On- 

 tario and the Northern States (Semotilus lullaris). It 

 seizes bait of all kinds, including portions of the flesh 

 of its own species, with avidity. It greedily takes all 

 kinds of natural and artificial flies alike, but seldom 

 leaping out of the water, like the trout, to carry the 

 lure down with it. Though fairly active in pursuit 

 of its food, it is not nearly so much so as the trout, its 

 method of taking it being more like a nibble than a 

 rush. It seldom succeeds in hooking itself upon a 

 a cast with which a pool or rapid is being whipped for 

 trout in a becomingly active and lively manner, and 



