The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-04-10
Trouting in Labrador.

The trout fisheries are conducted
much like, and generally in company
with, the salmon fisheries. The nets
used are long and narrow, while the
meshes are from three and q half to
four inches wide. This enables the
smaller fish to escape and retains those
larger ores whose usual size ranges
from three to four and a half pounds,
and from twelve to fourteen, or even
nearly eighteen inches in lengt1.
These nets are set across the mouth or
along the shore of some small bay into
which runs a stream of sufficient size to
allow the fish to run up to spawn. The
bottom of the net is sunk with heavy
weights, while the upper side is sup
ported by cork hobs which float upon
the top of the water. The net is exam
ined wee day, and the fish taken
from the meshes. They are then slit
down the belly and cleaned thoroughly
after being washed carefully in fresh
water they are packed III b rrel and
sailed down careful y. When full the
barrel contains about third salt and
water. In some places the people have
out large number of nets, and often
catch from quarter to half barrel OF
trout daily but the latter is a capital
days work and seldom made.
Trout are caught at all seasons, from
early in the Spring when the ice breaks
up, 10 late in the fall. They are abund-
ant Just before it is high tide; and their
favorite time is from two to four in the
afternoon OF rather windy and low
ering day. They at all times seem to
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about, and when the wind blows lightly
ru hing the water, and are then caught
in greater abundance than at any other
time. In some of the bays the trout
are so abundant that you can cast a
double hooked line and generally catch
fish almost instantly on each hook.
| have in mind locality called Bale
Les ROches, where small stream
comes down into a sort of lay or arm
of the sea, and where in 1875 party of
five of lis succeeded in taking with hook
and line some 93s fish, large and small,
fishing only part of two days. The fish
bit at the red and green flies, and as
fast a. we could haul them in. About
one hundred of these would weigh less
than half pound each, the majority
between one and two pounds, as many
as seventy-tive three pounds apiece. and
the largest weighed four pounds and a
half
There seems to be three or four vari-
cites or species of trout in these regions,
but they have not all as yet been posi-
lively identified. They are called here
salmon trout, spotted and gray trout,
sea trout and other species. If indeed
it be a val d one, called by the people
the mud trout. OF these three or four
the sea and spotted and gray trout
alone appear extensively as articles of
commerce. Trout are caught all along
the coast from Mngan to Blanc Sabion,
if not to Belle Is'e itself. Anywhere
about the mouth of small streams these
fish are abundant. The large streams
are usually so completely filled with
salmon-nets that trout-nets are of no
account whatever. In the small
places, even, | have known small
boy, hard V ten years old. to catch from
half barrel to barrel and half of
tro It in season with one or two nets
only, thus earning fr m Sl5 to $50 on
this a'one. The fish, like all other
Catches" are taken at a nominal
price in exchange for food and articles
f necessity and sold in Quebec as
grade Nos. /, 2 and 3, according to
quality, as seen by examination of the
barrels by the inspection otlicer.-CJr.
Springfield (MaSs.) Republican.