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the size of my captive by the strength it exerted in its 

 efforts to escape. My enthusiastic guide was much ex- 

 cited, and cheered me by such remarks as, " Juge he 

 big trout. He weigh three, four, five pounds ! He 

 very big trout ! " I concurred in his opinion, as it often 

 required the utmost strength of my right hand and 

 wrist to hold my rod at the proper angle. After play- 

 ing the fish fifteen or twenty minutes, without its 

 showing any signs of exhaustion, I slowly, and by sheer 

 force, reeled the fish to the canoe, and my guide 

 scooped it out with the landing net. I then discovered 

 it was not the monster we had supposed it to be, 

 but that it was hooked by the tail fly at the roots of 

 the caudal fin. The fish was killed, by a blow upon the 

 head, and weighed. The scales showed two pounds 

 two ounces. The guide paddled ashore, and upon the 

 rocks near the falls built a fire and prepared our 

 breakfast. The fish was split open on the back, spread 

 out upon a plank, to which it was secured by wooden 

 pegs, set up before the fire, and thus broiled, or more 

 properly, roasted. A more delicious trout I never tasted. 



Up to this point, what has been written has been 

 abstracted from the prolix journal that I kept of this 

 bout. 



As I have taken my first sea-trout from Canadian 

 waters it is fitting that I turn to the subject of this 

 article, 



SEA-TROUT. 



Like all anadromous fishes its tf<r ways are dark and 



