BIG TROUT OF THE NEPIGON 



killed fourteen trout in one hour on the tract in 1892, 

 their total weight being forty-five pounds. Mr. Che- 

 ney and Mr. W. F. Rathbone, of Albany, took twenty- 

 five speckled trout in the Moise River, on the fly, in 

 September, 1897, which weighed in all 101 pounds. 

 Ten of Mr. Cheney's fish weighed forty-five pounds 

 and ten of Mr. Rathbone's forty-one pounds. 



Except in the fall of the year many of the heaviest 

 trout caught in lakes are undoubtedly taken upon 

 the troll. Even those that are killed upon a fly 

 often seize it as it is trolled behind a boat. One of 

 the flies used in angling for these heavy fish is the 

 coarse bunch of hair known as the moose-tail fly. It 

 is usually trolled some distance under the water. 



The Lake Batiscan trout are exceptionally hand- 

 some fish. They are almost always in good condition. 

 So, too, are those of the Montmorenci River, which 

 are among the most gamy specimens known to Can- 

 adian anglers. They feed and fatten largely upon in- 

 sect food, and hence grow strong and lusty as well as 

 bold and gamy. All fish-culturists know how supe- 

 rior in coloring of flesh, in flavor, and in gameness are 

 those trout and chars which feed upon flies or Crus- 

 tacea. 



Mr. Stoddart, in his " Art of Angling as Practised 

 in Scotland," mentions an interesting experiment made 

 with trout, some years ago, in the south of England, in 

 order to ascertain the value of different food. Fish 

 were placed in three separate tanks, one of which was 



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