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134 AMERICAN GAME. 
to defy the plague of flies, and rough it. At the Sault 
St. Marie, the outlet of Lake Superior into Lake Huron, 
where the St. Marie, a river above a mile wide, rushes in 
a sheet of glancing and foaming rapids, down a descent 
of some twenty-four feet in about a mile, literally alive 
with the most magnificent brook-trout, by far the largest, 
in the general run, of any taken in America, the season 
does not begin until very late, and the fishing is not con- 
sidered to be in its prime until September. The fish 
here are of the finest quality, for size, beauty of color- 
ing, and excellence of flesh. From two to three pound 
may be considered, J think, as about the average run of 
fish, but five and six pounders are by no means rarities ; 
and it is on record that one fish a little exceeding ten 
pounds, and many exceeding nine, were brought into 
the American fort by the Indians, a premium having 
been offered for a ten-pounder. These, I wish it to be 
particularly observed, are not lake trout of any variety 
—several species of which are found in the same waters 
—but the genuine red-spotted brook-trout, with pink 
sides and silver belly, and tricolored fins, white, black, 
and red, when in high season. It differs in nothing, 
‘except size and brilliancy of tints, both the result of 
feeding and quality of water, from the famous Long 
Island trout of Snedecor’s and Carman’s, or from the 
small fry, scarcely bigger than minnows, which swarm 
in every rocky basin of every mountain brooklet from 
