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Title: With fly-rod and camera
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Samuels, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1836-1908
Subjects: Fishing Fishing
Publisher: New York, Forest and Stream Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ptying into it, there is practically an unlimited watersystem, which undoubtedly furnishes the best possible con-ditions for the preservation, growth, and wide and gen-eral diffusion of the SalmonidcE that here find a home.Establishing this fact at once in my mind, I of coursemade inquiries of every one who could give me any in-formation, and learned from all sources that the winninishare very abundant in the lake in early June, and evenearlier if the ice melts about the shores, and the fish aretaken readily with bait, and even with the fly, at thatearly season. So very abundant are they in fact, that,as I was informed, even boys and girls, as well as olderfishermen, might be seen landing the fish with all sortsof tackle, from the most primitive to the most elaborate.As regards the great, the astonishing abundance of thewnnninish in the early part of the season, the statementmade by all informants coincided, so that I have no doubtthat at the period I have named, this magnificent game
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A Trophy, This, 430 PVith Fly-Rod and Camera. fish may be obtained in great numbers. The fish are soabundant, and come to the lure so greedily, that the num-ber one may kill is as great as his selfishness may limit.Later in the season the winninish move into the deepwaters of the lake and into the cold streams. A favorite haunt of theirs seems to be the GrandDischarge, the outlet of the lake into the head of theSaguenay River, where, in the rushing waters of the rapidsand wildest of all whirlpools and eddies, the winninish aretaken with the fly until late in September. I have called the winninish a land-locked salmon,but it is not debarred from leaving the lake and descend-ing the river Saguenay to the St. Lawrence, and is there-fore not land-locked; and, as I said before, I can see nodifference whatever between this species and the so-calledland-locked salmon of the Schoodic Lakes, called by sci-entists Schoodic or Sebago salmon, which is also not land-locked. * * Regarding- the Scho

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