AMBEICAIif CHAEES (B E O O K-T E O TJT) 



de Mabre or Marston trout, 8. marstoni, of Lac de Mabre. I took 

 a two and one-half pounder in Lac Edouard of the Laurentian 

 Club chain that was, apparently, a typical fontinaUs, and in Lac 

 Weber another charr, that, while like fontinalis, was still different. 



The home of the red-trout, according to my guide, was in a 

 lake farther to the north. All these Canadian charrs, and I took 

 a number, were splendid game, hard fighters. I can wish the 

 British angler no better luck than to spend a summer in these 

 Canadian lakes, the land of trout, bear and moose, scarcely a 

 week from London by the St. Lawrence route. 



The true lake trouts are weU represented by a charr, the 

 Great Lake trout, Mackinaw trout, ' lunge,' and by other names, 

 as it is the great lake trout of the region from ]S"ew Brunswick 

 and Maine west to Vancouver and into Alaska, Hudson Bay, 

 and Labrador. It is also found in the Yukon. To science it is 

 Cristivomer namycusJi. Instead of red spots, it has gray ones> 

 and it bears a close resemblance in shape and form to many of 

 the small charrs. But here the resemblance ceases, as this charr 

 is a giant. It attains a length of several feet, and specimens 

 weighing over one hundred pounds have been hauled up with 

 various instruments of torture from the depths of the great lakes 

 ofjAmerica, some of which are nets five miles long, which take 

 from four to five tons of these charrs at a haul. The fish is taken 

 by anglers trolling with a spoon or a minnow. 



' The generous gushing of the springs. 

 When the angler goes a trolling ; 

 The stir of song and summer's wings. 

 The line which shines, and life which sings. 

 Make earth replete with happy things 

 When the angler goes a troUing.' 



Thomas Tod Stoddart. 



Another lake trout is the Siscowet (0. siscowet), found in the 

 deep waters of Lake Superior, lakes Huron and Erie. 



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