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place, hardly moving from my tracks. These facts show 

 how plenty they were, and how ready they are to take the 

 fly in winter. These trout were as fat, active, and gamey 

 as ever I saw them in any other stream in May or June. 



" Seth Green, Esq., the celebrated marksman and fly- 

 thrower of Rochester, bought this creek a year ago last 

 fall, for the purpose of growing trout artificially as well as 

 naturally on an extensive scale. He has since prepared 

 ponds, races, hatching-house and hatching-boxes, and 

 troughs for 3,000,000 of spawn, which he expects to fill 

 during the spawning season, which is, with him, from the 

 1st of November to the 1st of April. Last winter his two 

 best months for spawn were January and February, and 

 he expects they will be this year. , 



" He has one pond, only 75 feet long, 12 feet wide and 

 5 feet deep, that has 9000 trout in it from 9 inches to 20 

 inches long, that will weigh from a quarter of a pound to 

 three pounds each, all as fat as seals and as beautiful as 

 trout can possibly be, all caught with the fly, by his own 

 hand, since he bought the creek, and all can be seen now, 

 any day, at one view, by any person who will take the 

 trouble to call on him. Only think what a sight 9000 

 such trout all in the eye at once ! What a gigantic and 

 magnificent aquarium ! 



" I am certain that this is the largest and finest exhibi- 

 tion of trout in America, and, probably, in the whole 

 world. This alone would well pay a journey of any lover 

 of Walton from any part of the country to see. But this 

 is not all. He has another pond, right by the side of this, 



