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the backs of the White Trout are of a bluish green, just the 

 colour of the wave ; and the under part of the fish sparkles like 

 molten silver." 



In a report of the fly-fishing of the province, which J\Ir. Perley 

 was good enough to enclose, I find also the following pertinent 

 remarks on this fish : 



" It is to be understood," he says, " that the whole Gulf of 

 St. Lawrence abounds with White Trout, from one to seven 

 pounds in weight. They proceed up the rivers as far as the 

 head of the tide in each, but they never ascend into the purely 

 fresh water. In the salt water they are caught only with the 

 ' Prince Edward's Island fly,' so called, the body of Avhich is of 

 scarlet with gold tinsel, or of gold tinsel only, with fom- wings 

 from the feathers of the scarlet ibis — the ' curry-curry ' of South 

 America. 



" In the estuaries of rivers where the water is only brackish 

 they take the Irish lake-fly with gay colours ; the scarlet ibis 

 seems the most attractive, however, in all cases. In the fresh 

 water the Trout are quite difterent ; they are much longer, very 

 brilliantly coloui-ed, with tricoloured fins of black, white, and 

 scarlet, and numerous bright spots over the body. When the 

 fish are in good condition these spots are nearly as large as a 

 silver penny. They rarely exceed three pounds in weight, but 

 are a very sporting fish ; they take the most of the Irish flies, 

 but the red hackle in all its varieties is the favourite. A bril- 

 liant hackle, over a yellow or fiery brown body, kills everywhere, 

 all the season through. 



"The Sea Trout fishing, in the bays and harbom's of Prince 

 Edward's Island, especially in June, when the fish first rush in 



