AMERICAN SAIBLING 



loves, — the poetry of an epithalamium in every 

 motion, — in one direction, uncovering to the sun- 

 beams in amorous leaps their gold-tinctured sides, 

 gemmed with the fire of rubies ; in another, dart- 

 ing in little companies, the pencilled margins of 

 their fins seeming to trail behind them like white 

 ribbons under the ripples. There are conspicuous 

 differences in intensity of general coloration, and 

 the gaudy dyes of the milter are tempered in the 

 spawner to a dead-lustre cadmium cream or olive 

 chrome, with opal spots. The wedding garment 

 nature has given to this charr is unparagoned. 

 Those who have seen the bridal march of the 

 glistering hordes, in all their glory of color and 

 majesty of action, pronounce it a spectacle never 

 to be forgotten. 



The Sunapee saibling takes live bait readily, 

 preferring a cast smelt in spring, when it pursues 

 the spawning osmerus to the shores. As far as is 

 known, it does not rise to the fly, either at this 

 season, or when on the shoals in autumn. 

 Through the summer months, it is angled for 

 with live minnow or smelt, in sixty to seventy 

 feet of water, over a cold bottom, in localities 

 that have been baited. While the smelt are in- 

 shore, trolling with a light fly-rod and fine tackle, 

 either with a Skinner's fluted spoon No. i, or a 



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