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AUASSU. 



This is one of tlir liiust til" the Ainericjui tVi'sli-wjitcr fi.>>lir.s; 

 it is surpassed l)y iioir* in boldness of l)itiu|j:, in tierce and 

 violent resistance when hooked, and l)y a very few only in excel- 

 lence upon the l)oard. 



Peculiar orijjinally to the basin of the St. Lawrence, in wliicli 

 it abounds from the Falls of Niagara downward, if not throuj^h 

 its whole course, it has made its way into the waters of the 

 I ppcr Hudson, through the canals. It is said by Dr. Dekay 

 to be found generally in the small lakes of the state of New 

 York, but I conclude that this must be limited to those which 

 communicate with the great lakes or the St. Lawrence. It is 

 takeu abundantly in Lake Champlain, but it is in the swift 

 glancing waters of the St. Lawrence, among the excpiisite 

 scenery of the Thousand Islands, that it affords the greatest 

 sport to the angler. 



It bites mveuously at a small ti>li or >[)inning-tackle, or at 

 the deadly and murderous spoon, an instrument so certainly 

 destructive that the use of it is pro|K.rly discouraged by all true 

 anglers as poaching and unsportsnnmlike. 



The tinest sjKirt can be had, however, with a long light Sal- 

 mon-line, treble-twjstcd gut, to defy its numerous ami exceed- 

 ingly acute tectli, and a large fly, with a body of scarlet clund 

 and four w ings, two of tlic silver pheasant and two of the scarlet 



