532 AMERICAN ANGLER'S BOOK. 



July 30, 1858. "Weight, 6^ pounds ; length, 24 inches ; cir- 

 cumference, 13 J ; taken in the Batchewaunaung, Canada West. 

 At the same time took six more. Weight of the seven fish, 

 31 J pounds." Roberts says that Mr. Oady's word is not to be 

 doubted. The head of the Lake Trout which you may see in 

 the window, at Philip Wilson's gun and tackle store, in 

 Chestnut above Fourth Street, was brought from Lake 

 Superior, by the President of our little club, and though it is 

 twenty-one inches in circumference, it is from a small fish 

 compared with some that have been taken there. I have no 

 doubt, that a person who was properly prepared, could troll 

 successfully for these monster Trout — if he could hit the 

 right time, say in June, and find boatmen who knew where to 

 fish for them. ' 



I have been told also, that the Canadian steamers, which 

 ply between Toronto and Chicago, stop at several points on 

 Manitoiiline Islands, where there are fine Trout-streams within 

 easy distance ; but there it would be unnecessary to camp 

 out. It is said, that there is also fine Black Bass fishing in 

 the little bays along the same islands. 



Nor. But, what do you know personally of the fly-fish- 

 ing on Lake Sup^erior ? 



Nes. I have already told you that it is now more than 

 twenty years since I was at Sault Ste. Marie, and that I was 

 never beyond there ; I have a letter, though, in the breast- 

 pocket of my old fishing-jacket, which was written by your 

 humble servant to a brother of the angle, while waiting at 

 Mackinaw for a boat, after his return from the Sault ; if you 

 have energy enough left, and can keep awake after the half- 

 dozen Trout you have eaten, you may read it. 



Nob. Let me knock the ashes out of my pipe, and 

 moisten my mouth with the little bit of claret you have left 

 in that bottle, and I'll try it. 



