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around the islands, occasionally taking an assorted two or 

 three at a time. 



Passing westward to Lakes Huron, Erie, Ontario, and the 

 Niagara, Tonawanda, and Detroit Rivers, we meet the same 

 species, together with the white basse, catfish, and other 

 varieties that are subjects of' the sportsman's pastimes ; 

 thence northward, to the Grand Traverse region, and we 

 encounter the speckled trout and the beautiful and newly- 

 discovered " grayling " in the same stream, a district that 

 will receive a large share of the angler's attention ; and again 

 westward into Wisconsin, at Green Bay and Winnebago Lake, 

 the Wolfe River, where the black and white basse, pickerel, 

 glass-eyed pike, perch, catfish, sturgeon, and muskellonge, 

 are objects of sport. " The white basse," says my correspond- 

 ent, Mr. J. C. Hooper, " come up the river in great quanti- 

 ties in June ; they swim near the surface ; they take the fly 

 readily, and furnish as much sport as any fish of twice the 

 size that I know of. The average weight is one and a, half 

 pound. They will also take the spoon freely, but it must be. 

 a small one. I think they are the handsomest fish in our 

 waters." 



The black basse average four and a half to five pounds, 

 and have been taken as large as eight pounds. In regard to 

 the quantity of fish in the lake and river, he says: " I have 

 been a practical fisherman for thirty-five years, and am con- 

 vinced that there are as many fish in these waters as can 

 find food to live on. It is impossible to sensibly diminish 

 the quantity of fish in the waters in question. Their won- 

 derful powers of fecundity are such that, should one in five 

 thousand, more or less, come to maturity, the stock will be 

 kept good." 



Still farther west, in Marquette County, on the northern 



