gh the fish. It was absolutely empty, was 4 ft. long, yet it
only weighed 24 1/2 lb. For the length it was the narrowest fish I had
ever seen. The head was 11 3/4 in. long from outer edge of gill cover
to tip of lower snout. Ben showed it in triumph as we walked in
procession from the landing-stage to the hotel, and when it became
known that it had been caught on a small rod and trout line there was a
popular sensation in the nice little town of Port Perry.

Men left their horses and buggies, workpeople threw down their tools
and hurried to the scene, mothers caught their children in their arms
and held them up to see. Later in the afternoon I killed another
'lunge of about 6 lb., and that too had an empty stomach. A party of
American visitors returned at night with four or five of similar size,
and every fish presented the same emaciated appearance. There was not
a vestige of food in their stomachs. Had my good one been feeding well
for a few days previously he would have been many pounds heavier. As
it was, I ought to have preserved the skin and brought it home as a
specimen, so long and gaunt was it, so different from our deep-bodied
English pike, to which it otherwise bore, of course, a close family
resemblance. This conclusion I arrived at by the aid of a suggestion
from A. when it was too late; and some day I must try and catch a still
finer specimen.

Captain Campbell, of the Lake Ontario (Beaver Line), informs me that he
once brought over in a whisky cask the head of a maskinonge from the
St. Lawrence that was said to weigh 140 lb., and it would really seem
that these fish do occasionally run to weights far into the fifties and
sixties. I never heard of anyone trying for 'lunge with live baits, or
spinning with dead fish and the flights such as we use at home for
pike. The use of the big spoon is universal. And I may add that a
month later (say October) those fish would not have been quite so much
like herrings in their insides.

Green bass and speckled trout are Canadian names, signifying the
large-mouthed variety of the black bass for the one part, and our old
friend fontinalis for the other. It will be remembered that under the
circumstances of brief opportunity and far-distant waters which I have
duly explained, my expectations were modest, and hope would have been
satisfied with a simple sample each of the black bass, immortalised by
Dr. Henshall, and the maskinonge of the lakes. How I caug