ASGLING FOE OUANANICHE 95 



In the hottest and clearest weather of the short, hot 

 Canadian summer it requires, indeed, all one's skill to 

 entice the ouananiche, and then, too, as Mr. J. G. A. 

 Creighton so well puts it, "If you understand the 

 fine art of dry fly-fishing, and can manoeuvre a tiny 

 dun on a 12 or 13 hook so as to look like the real 

 article, and can also handle large fish on the fine 

 tackle required, you will get good sport and the sat- 

 isfaction Avhich comes of catching fish as Eeynolds 

 mixed his colors — with brains." 



It does require brains, and experience as weU, to 

 handle the ouananiche upon the exceedingly minute 

 hooks and delicate gossamer-like gut that is employed 

 upon the Loch Leven and other Scotch trout-waters. 



Various are the rods employed in the Lake St. John 

 waters. Grilse rods are sometimes called into requisi- 

 tion for ouananiche fishing, both by those preferring 

 a sharp, quick struggle with the fish to a protracted 

 fight, and by those who have had but little experience 

 in fighting it in heavy water. The usual tool em- 

 ployed is a trout -rod weighing from seven to nine 

 ounces, and personally I believe this to be the most 

 serviceable for the purpose. But there are experienced 

 anglers who enjoy the sport of killing the fish upon a 

 five-ounce rod, and no doubt there is keen enjoyment 

 in the straggle, particularly when -no compensation 

 for the lightness and pliability of the rod is taken in 

 the shape of automatic adjuncts; possessing which, the 

 angler hooks the fish and the self-acting reel does 

 the rest. I freely admit that with a verj' light rod 

 and so stubborn a fighter as the ouananiche an auto- 

 matic reel is almost essential to success, because of 



