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served by the operation of the tide upon the bait, 

 which occasions their collecting in two well known 

 rendezvous or sand spits which project into the 

 bay, forming a current favorable to the purpose of 

 their resort. 



To give some idea of the numbers which are 

 occasionally taken, it may not be amiss to state that 

 upon one of the points alluded to, being the one 

 of least note, and forming a sort of narrow to a 

 division of the bay, we perceive by a memoran- 

 dum made at the time, that two persons took 

 eighty sea-trout, the weight of which, including 

 two baskets four pounds each, was fiftynine 

 pounds. This was on the fourth of April, the 

 wind west, flood tide most of the time, and the 

 bait equally shrimp and minnow. Though the 

 artificial fly is by no means used for sea-trout, 

 with much success, before they are led by instinct 

 to change the nature of their food with the ele- 

 ment in which it is formed, yet it is customary in 

 this sort of fishing to have a red fly, as it is called, 

 but more strictly speaking, a caterpillar, perma- 

 nently attached to the line ; this with one bait, 

 either the shrimp or minnow, is the common prac- 

 tice, by which two fish are often taken at the same 

 time, and occasionally three, as we have once 

 seen, when the three varieties of bait were used 

 together. 



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