SEA TROUT. 49 
Whatever be his name, he is a beauty, the fairest of 
the children of the sea. There are others of more varie- 
gated colors, of gaudier hues, of more slender shape, but 
the trout is lord of all. He is the pet of the true fisher- 
man, whether taken by the name oi Sahno trutta in the 
bays of Canada, weighing fifteen pounds, or as Salmo 
fontinalis^ in the mountain streams of Yermont, reach- 
ing not one quarter as many ounces. In Canada, 
sportsmen — and none others seem to fish — take the sea 
trout solely with the fly. In June, and earlier, they are 
found in the tide waters, and there prefer gaudy flies. 
The scarlet ibis, or curry-curry of South America, dressed 
as it is ordinarily done, or diversified by a little gold or 
silver tinsel wound round the body, or indeed the entire 
hook wound with tinsel alone, is by many preferred to 
all other flies ; but the red hackle, the golden pheasant, 
the professor, the grey drake, and in fact any gay fly, 
will meet with approval. A. much admired fly is made 
of a red body and yellow wings ; but the more sober 
colors must not be forgotten nor neglected, they are 
often more successful than their gaudy relations. As 
the season advances, and the fish ascend the clear, cool 
rivers, especially if the water be low and the weather 
dry, the sober flies are preferable. Then the cow-dung, 
the alder-fly, the turkey-brown, the winged black hackle, 
and in fact all the ordinary flies, are in demand ; a fly 
invented bv mvself, of a blackbird's wino- and a claret 
body and legs, and called the early fly, has often j)roved 
itself uncomuionly killing; and indeed all the flies usu- 
ally employed in other waters are appropriate for the sea 
trout in Canada. 
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