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two persons took, in the same spot, fiftyeight trout, 

 weighing thirty pounds ; and tliis gives a correct 

 idea of their average w^eight of half a pound, many 

 being not much over a quarter, a considerable 

 number up to a pound, and but few reaching the 

 weight of two pounds and over. 



It would be well if some who are in the habit of 

 angling here, would remember the petition of the 

 fish in the fable, and release all trout under the 

 size of minnows, instead of basketing every one 

 they catch, merely to swell the number, without 

 regard to weio;ht, beside the detriment to future 

 sport — such conduct is a wanton sacrifice of life, 

 which no true angler will countenance. 



On the seventh of May, twentynine pounds 

 were taken by two persons, the number of fish not 

 known, but probably between fifty and sixty. We 

 shall merely add as an instance of the greatest re- 

 sult of fishing at the two principal points here al- 

 luded to, of which we have any recollection, that 

 in the middle of April 1829, there were taken by 

 two persons, in five day's fishing, 296 sea trout, 

 weighing 191 pounds. On one of the five days 

 the number was eightytwo, and the weight sixty- 

 one pounds, thirty fish of one of the parties weigh- 

 ing thirty pounds and a quarter, and the largest 

 two pounds and eleven ounces. The wind and 

 weather on the whole were favorable, but even 



