The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-04-11
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 a 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 half pounds,
and from twelve to fourteen, or even
nearly eighteen inches in length.
hese nets are set across the mouth or
along the shore of some small bay into
which runs 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 tw ce day, and the fish taken
from the meshes. They are then slit
down the belly and cleaned thoroughly {:
after beng washed carefully in fresh
water they are packed ia rrel and
sailed down careful V. When full the
barrel contains about a 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 a. all seasons, from
early in The Spring when the ice breaks
up, to laye IN the tall. They are abund-
ant lust 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
prefer cloudy weather N which to be
about and when the wind blows lightly
ru ing the water, and are then caught
in greater abundance than at any other
time. In some of the bays the trout
are so abun taut that You can cast
double hooked line and generally catch
fish almost instantly on each hook.
| have in mind locality called Bale
Les Roches, where a small stream
comes down into Il sort of tav or arm
of the sea. and where in 1875 party of
five OF us sue eeded in taking with hook
and line some 9>S fish, large aud small.
fishing only part of two days The fish
bit at the red and green flies, and a
fas. a. we could haul them in About
one hundred OF these would weigh less
than half pound each, the ma ority
between one and two pounds. as manv
as seventy-tive three pounds apiece. and
the largest weighed four pounds and a
half
There seems to be three or four vari-
etieS or species of trout in these regions.
but tn " have not all as vet been posi-
tiyely identi ed. They are called here
salmon trout, spotted and gray trout.
sea trout and other species If indeed
it De 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 Mingan to Blanc >abjon,
ii not TO Belle Ee itself. anywhere
about the mouth of small streac- 4 Iese
fish are abundant. The large 81 ams
are usually so completely titled with
salmOn-nets thai trout-nets are of 10
account whatever. In the small
places, even, [ have known \ small
boy, hard V ten years old. to catch from
half a barrel to a barrel and a half of
tro in a season with one or two nets
only, thus earning fr m >l5 to so en-
this one. !he tsh. like all other
",atches," are taken At a nominal
price in exchange for food and articles
, necess ~ and sold in Quebec a
grade Nos. l, and :, according to
quality, a seen by examination of the
barrels by the inspection oIficer.-Cgr.
Springfield (-hasS- Republican.