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where he caught several togue, weighing from 4 pounds upward. The 

 hirgest hecaught measured 29 inches in length, but weighed 8 pounds 

 only, not being in good condition. 



It has been foimd of late years that this species of fish exists in con- 

 siderable numbers in Loch Lomond, twelve miles from the city of Saint 

 John; and they have, in consequence, been sought after by sportsmen, 

 who take them from a boat, by trolling over the deepest portions of the 

 loch. 



A specimen of this fish, taken in Loch Lomond in 1848, was said to 

 correspond exactly with the fish described by Mr. Yarrell as Salmo ferox, 

 the great gray-trout of Loch Awe. 



This fish is taken from a boat rowed gently through the water ; the 

 bait, a small fish guarded by several good-sized hooks. They are ex- 

 tremely voracious, and having seized the bait, will allow themselves to 

 be dragged by the teeth for forty or fifty yards, and when accidentally 

 freed, will again immediately seize it. The young fish, up to 3 pounds 

 weight, rise freely at the usual trout-flies ; the writer has often taken 

 them up to that weight by ti^'-fishing, but never larger. 



When in perfect season and full-grown, it is a handsome fish, though 

 the head is too large and long to be in accordance with perfect ideas of 

 symmetry in a trout. The colors are deep i)urplish-brown on the up- 

 per parts, changing into reddish-gray, and thence into fine orange-yel- 

 low on the breast and belly. The body is covered with markings of 

 different sizes, varying in number in different individuals. Each spot 

 is surrounded by a pale ring, which sometimes assumes a reddish hue ; 

 the spots become more distant from each other as they descend below 

 the lateral line, and the lower parts of the fish are spotless. The fins 

 are of a rich yellowish-green color, darker toward their extremities. 

 The tail is remarkable for it breadth and consequent power. The flavor 

 of this fish is coarse and indiflerent ; the flesh is of an orange-yellow, 

 not the rich salmon-color of the common-trout, in good condition. The 

 stomach is very capacious, and generally found gorged with fish ; it is 

 very voracious. 



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3. — THE WHITE SEA-TROUT, {Sctlnio immaculatus.) 



This beautiful trout abounds in the Gulf of St. Lawrence ; it is found 

 on the northern shores of Xew Brunswick and in the estuaries of those 

 rivers of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia which flow into the gulf 

 and the Strait of Causo, early in June. It is caught in nets at the 

 Magdalen Islands in summer, and salted for export. Many sportsmen 

 resort annually to river Philip in Nova Scotia, during the month of June, 

 to fish for these sea-trout, which enter the estuary of the river at that 

 season. No specimen of this fish has yet been seen in the Bay of Fundy, 

 whicli it is supposed not to frequent. 



The flesh of the salmon-trout is of a brilliant pink-color, and most 

 excellent; its exceeding fiitness early in the season, when it first enters 



