SEA TROUT. ^5 
numbers, and of immense size ; but after they have 
once left tlie salt water, the angler must accompany 
them in their ascent if he would continue his sport, and 
by day struggle in his canoe against the rapids, up which 
he hears them darting at night. 
While the fish are still in tide water, and the fisher- 
man is fishing from the rocks, the head of some bay 
into which flows a stream of fresh water, and the time 
of the lower half of the tide, are both desirable. The 
former as furnishing a variety of food, and the latter as 
contracting the fishing ground. The eddies of a swift 
current, and the hollows of a rocky bottom are both 
afifected by the fisli ; although they are often found 
along a smooth sandy shore, chasing the minnows, and 
now and then dashing at a fly or sand-hopper thrown 
ofif the land. It is nothing unusual to capture a hun- 
dred fish in as few hours as it will require to land them, 
and often the only limit to the number wdll be the 
sportsman's humanity. They are a difficult fish to pre- 
serve ; it seems sacrilegious to salt them ; they are not 
good pickled in brine, and smoking is both injurious 
and troublesome. The fisherman, if he would not have 
them rot before his eyes, must put a bridle on his eager- 
ness. 
They run very large, sometimes above a dozen pounds, 
are often taken of five and six, and frequently a whole 
day's catch will average three pounds. They are found 
at the mouth and along the shore of every river that 
empties into the lower part of the St. Lawrence. They 
ascend the Saguenay, and are taken at and near its 
mouth in great numbers, and in fact everywhere in the 
