BIG TROUT OF THE NEPIGON 



and even pieces of pork. Trolling, either with the 

 spoon, the phantom minnow, or a dead-fish bait, is also 

 very successful. These monster char will readily take 

 a very large size pike-spoon, and will not even refuse 

 to make a meal of the young of their own species. 



In all probability there are larger fish in Lake Ed- 

 ward than any that have been taken out of it, and if 

 reliance can be placed upon the stories of the big ones 

 which have been hooked and lost there, the size of its 

 speckled trout is not exceeded in any Canadian stream 

 or lake. 



Throughout the northern part of the continent there 

 are a series of favored waters where gigantic specimens 

 oi Salvelinus fontinalis, at least equalling those caught in 

 Lake Edward, in size and gorgeousness of coloring, and 

 sometimes exceeding them in gameness, are still to be 

 found. These lakes and rivers are situated, for the most 

 part, amid the mountains of the Laurentian chain, which 

 extends from the north of Lake Superior to the sea-coast 

 of Labrador, though some of them occur on the north 

 of the water-shed dividing the waters of Hudson's Bay 

 from those of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Much confu- 

 sion has been caused by the application of the name 

 " trout," as well to the namaycush or christivomer as to 

 Salvelinus fontinalis, and many reports of large trout in 

 northem waters have been found, upon investigation, to 

 refer to the so-called gray or lake trout, or namaycush. 

 Speckled trout of three to nine pounds in weight are 

 reported, however, to have been taken in nets in Lake 



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