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been with me are, I believe, convinced of this 

 fact. 



Now in taking up this matter at the present 

 time, which I was induced to do through a very 

 dear friend of mine. Dr. Johnson, I have done 

 so with many misgivings, for the reason that I 

 believe that my ideas in regard to trout and their 

 habits in these rivers will conflict with the ideas 

 of other notable sportsmen, but at the same time 

 I have made it a very careful study, and believe 

 that the conclusions that I have arrived at are 

 perfectly right, that is to say, so far as my own 

 experience goes. Controlling and leasing one of 

 the best rivers in Barnstable County, that is, the 

 best portion of the river, for the past ten years, I 

 have been in a position to make closer observa- 

 tions of these trout, I believe, than many others 

 have, but even after this close attention to the 

 matter, I am still at a loss to understand some 

 things, and up to this writing I am unable to-day 

 to say decidedly that I am right. 



The first day of April, along the shore of Vine- 

 yard Sound, where these rivers empty into the 

 salt water ponds adjacent to and connecting with 

 the Sound, you will see from seventy-five to one 

 hundred fishermen scattered along just at the edge 

 of tidewater, and all of them taking more or less 



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