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erations it will possess and exhibit all the qualities of 

 the Canadian fisli, and vice versa. "When found in 

 deep northern Canadian lakes, away from rapid wa- 

 ter, the ouauaniche makes no such display of agility 

 and cunning as he does in the waters of the Grande 

 Decharge, or in similar rapids in the great tributaries 

 of Lake St. John. 



It is not surprising, therefore, that those who have 

 only met him in the lakes, where he seldom takes the 

 fly in summer, and have had to chiefly fish for him 

 Avith the spoon or a bait, should find him a very differ- 

 ent game-fish from those who have found and met him 

 in the rapid waters of the Decharge. It is upon the 

 basis of the foregoing that I account for the experience 

 of Dr. Clayton M. Daniels, of Buffalo, N. T., and a 

 party of friends, who fished in the country north of 

 Lake St. John during the summer of 1893. Writing 

 me upon his return to Buffalo, under date of August 

 26, 1893, Dr. Daniels said: "We had a splendid trip 

 and excellent fishing, although the fly was of little 

 use. We captured pike, ouananiche, and trout in quan- 

 tities, until the sport grew wearisome, and we returned 

 two days earlier than was at first intended. Our main 

 camp was at Lake Tschotagama. I shot a bear in the 

 neck and bled him badly, but he went among the rocks 

 on a mountain-side, and I lost him. In regard to the 

 fighting qualities of the ouananiche, I think he should 

 be third on the list, believing trout and black bass 

 should lead in the order named." If my own experi- 

 ence of the ouananiche had been limited to fishing for 

 it in Lac Tschotagama, Lac aux Eats, and Lac a Jim, 

 my opinion of its game qualities would probably about 



