OTHEE FISH AND GAME 381 



Low, the Labrador explorer, which appear in the 

 chapter upon the " Geographical Distribution of the 

 Ouananiche," the writer tells how he caught the great 

 Northern whitefish with the May-fljf iu inland waters 

 of Labrador. 



This exceedingly palatable and handsome specimen 

 of the whitefish family, invested with the distin- 

 guishing badge of the salmonidae, exhibits very few, if 

 any, points of difference from the ordinary Coregonus 

 clupeiformis, or whitefish of commerce. In midsum- 

 mer, in the Grande Decharge, it appears to school at 

 times with the ouananiche, swimming close to the 

 surface of the water, round and round the eddies and 

 oily-covered pools beneath falls or rapids, frequently 

 showing its dorsal fin above the scum, and by the 

 similarity of its manner often passing, with anglers, 

 for ouananiche. Not so with the guides, however, 

 who readily distinguish between " le saumon " and " la 

 poisson hlancheP The latter will occasionally take 

 the fly intended for ouananiche ; not with the bound, 

 however, characteristic of those salraonoids that are 

 best known to and most frequently sought by sports- 

 men, but quietly and with steady tension. Few of 

 the guides appear to know that the fish takes the fly 

 at all, and so do not encourage the angler to make 

 any effort to obtain it, though its flesh is delicious and 

 very much prized, its form symmetrical almost as the 

 salmon itself, and its fight for life and liberty exciting 

 and obstinate. Of artificial lures it prefers the small- 

 est, and these must be dressed on very small hooks 

 and the finest of tackle employed. Only one fly — a 

 gnat, or something of that kind — shguld be employed, 



