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 FLY FISHING. 



Fly fishing for large trout is not very snccess- 

 fiil in the spring anywhere, but late in summer 

 and in September the very largest trout are 

 taken in Maine, in the streams, with the arti- 

 ficial fly and with the most delicate rods in use, 

 some weighing as light as six ounces. 



A good many small trout from J to 3 lbs. 

 each, were taken by our i)arty this season Avith 

 the artificial fly. 



It is hardly necessary to say tliat the writer, 

 in common witli the others of the party, prefer 

 this mode to all other methods of taking 

 trout, but in order to enjoy the exquisite sport 

 of taking very large trout in this fashion, it 

 is necessary that they should show some dis- 

 position to rise at your flies after having made 

 a few hundred casts ; but as all trout above 3 

 lbs. ])ositively declined to take the slightest 

 notice of our repeated attentions, the writer, 

 with others decided to adopt the next most 

 enjoyable style of trout fishing, viz.: trolling 

 with a live minnow ; and the extraordinary 

 success we met with in taking the large growth, 

 reconciled us in a great degree to this method 

 of angling. But first, last, and all the time, fly- 



