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say, through miles of cranberry bogs, and it is 

 what is termed "open fishing" nearly the entire 

 length of the river. Aside from some ponds 

 which exist, where the bottom is muddy, the 

 bottom of this river is sandy, and I believe one 

 of the best places for propagating trout that there 

 is in this country. The young fry have an op- 

 portunity to work up into the ditches between 

 the bogs, so that they evade all foes and increase 

 in size sufficiently to enable them to properly 

 protect themselves when they enter the stream. 

 Also, at the upper part of the stream is a narrow, 

 shallow brook, that is a most excellent place for 

 young trout, and the excellent fishing that exists 

 continually, from year to year, justifies me in the 

 belief that there are no better brooks in existence 

 to-day in which to propagate trout than in these 

 streams and rivers on the Cape. Of late years 

 a great deal of interest has been taken in this 

 direction, and I believe that the privileges are to 

 be more and more valuable from year to year, and 

 that the fishing shows no falling off. 



The large trout which I have taken in the 

 Coonamessett River are the most beautiful that 

 I have ever seen, and there is not a State in New 

 England where I have not fished a good share 

 of the lakes, rivers, and brooks and secured my 



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