244 OTHEE FISH AND GAMe 



THE BROOK-TROUT 



No work purporting to give anything lil^e a fair 

 idea of the attractions to the angler of the Canadian 

 environment of the ouananiche coiald lay any claim 

 to completeness that did not designate at least a few 

 of the many localities where the trout fisherman may 

 enjoy a full measure of his favorite sport. How one's 

 appetite for it is whetted by the reading of Mr. A. P. 

 Low's notes* upon the three to seven pound fish that 

 rise to the fiy above the Grand Falls of the Plamil- 

 ton River! JSTot even the far-famed Nepigon would 

 appear to compare with the distant Hamilton, for here 

 Mr. Low found no small fish at all. But few, very 

 few anglers can expend the time and labor necessary 

 to a journey into that far country. It is the old story 

 of the distant scene and the onward beckoning to bet- 

 ter things than the present in the great unknown ! 

 "What angler would willingly be deprived of the charm 

 of expectancy? 



Fish of all the varieties common to these Labrador 

 waters are exceedingly plentiful in the Hamilton 

 River, and in one catch of a small net above the Great 

 Falls Mr. Low found no fewer than five diiferent 

 species — namely, Oyprinus Forsterianus (red sucking 

 carp), Coregonus clujpeiformis (common whitefish), 

 Salvelinus namaycush (great lake -trout), Salvelinus 

 fontinalis (brook -trout), JEsox iucms (pike). It has 

 already been mentioned that ouananiche are found 



* See the chapter upon "The G-eographical Distribution of the 

 Ouananiche " 



