THE GAME FISHES OF THE WOELD 



remains and they take a fly or spoon, and before they can eject 

 it are hooked. Ex-Senator George Edmunds told me that he 

 saw a salmon rise to a nut that fell from a tree, just as it would 

 to a fly, and eject it. 



The Saguenay is a weird, deep, uncanny fjord of great interest. 

 I journeyed up by its rocky ramparts to Chicoutimi, in search 

 of ouananiche at Lake St. John, and if I did not get it, I feasted my 

 eyes on the big, tame salmon at Tadousac, and the white whales 

 that drifted about like patches of pure white cotton. 



I can but suggest the delights of the upper Saguenay, and the 

 game little land-locked salmon, known as Ouananiche, Salmo 

 salar ouananiche, of the joys of which Dr. Henry Van Dyke told 

 me, and of which he has lovingly written : ' But the prince of the 

 pool was the fighting Ouananiche ; the Little salmon of St. John. 

 Here let me chant thy praise, thou noblest and most high- 

 minded fish, the cleanest feeder, the merriest liver, the loftiest 

 leaper and the bravest warrior of all creatures that swim ! Thy 

 cousin, the trout, in his purple and gold with crimson spots, wears 

 a more splendid armour than thy russet and silver mottled with 

 black, but thine is the kinglier nature.' 



Labrador, Anticosti, Newfoundland, the angling joys of which 

 were discussed years ago by the dean of American anglers, Mr. 

 Charles HaUock, are now open to the people. In the great state 

 of Maine are the Eangeley Lakes, and in New Brunswick and 

 Nova Scotia many charming spots, with big game waiting. 



The rivers of Nova Scotia are famous for salmon or trout or 

 both. Some are Middle Eiver, Cape Breton, Brazil Lake, 

 Lakes Eossignol, Kejimikugik, the Medway and Mersey rivers ; 

 and at Mira Bay, St. Ann and Cape Breton is the home of the 

 horse mackerel, from eight hundred to one thousand pounds, the 

 same fish known as the tuna on the CaUfornian coast. 



In New Brunswick we have the Eestigouche, and its principal 

 tributary is the Metapedia and TJpsalquitch, the home of the 

 famous Eestigouche Salmon Club. Other salmon and trout 

 rivers and lakes here are Charles, Jacquet rivers, Palfrey Lake, 

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