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and in spring they follow the smelts up the rivers. At 

 this season they take bait ravenously, and large num- 

 bers are caught in the mouths of the rivers, and even off 

 the public wharfs at Campbelton and Dalhousie. But 

 the fly-fisherman must follow them farther up the streams, 

 where, in July and August, he cannot go wrong. Nouvelle 

 and Escuminac, two little rivers on the Canada side, are 

 famous for the size and quality of their trout. The trout 

 fishing in the latter stream in the month of July is 

 about the best I know of anywhere. This stream, flowing 

 from the snow-clad Shickshock mountains, is icy cold and 

 as clear as crystal. Civilized trout would object to rise 

 at a fly under these conditions, but in Escuminac they are 

 not fastidious. On one occasion I counted from the bank 

 six fish lying together behind a little rock ; I caught them 

 all one after the other, and was then giving up, when my 

 Indian, who had climbed a little tree close by, sung out, 

 " Try again, more trout come," and sure enough I went 

 on till we had two dozen (quite as many as we were able 

 to carry, as they averaged 3 Ibs.) ; while fresh fish 

 seemed immediately to take the place of those that were 

 hooked. On another occasion, finding no trout in a pool 

 which I had never before fished without success, I sent 

 my Indians in their canoe to beat a long shallow reach of 

 the stream which was overgrown with alder bushes. The 

 effect of this battue was magical ; in ten minutes my pool 

 was full of fish, and, what is more, they took the fly as if 

 nothing had happened. On the New Brunswick side there 

 is another very good little river, called the Charlo, where 

 I have had good trout and grilse fishing, with an occa- 

 sional salmon. 



