332 LOCALITIES OF TROUT. 



TROUT FISHING. 



This cliarming sport, second only in its excitement to the 

 skill which it requires, and in the quality of the captive, to its 

 elder sister, Salmon-fishing, cannot be enjoyed in any part of 

 the known world in greater perfection than on the northern 

 continent of America. 



Everywhere from the Arctic Circle to somewhere about the 

 forty-fourth degree of north latitude, everywhere from the 

 mouth of the St. Lawrence and the wild shores of Gaspe and 

 Chaleurs to the far coasts of the Pacific, and the swift streams 

 of Oregon, this beautiful and active fish is found abundant, in 

 every spring-stream and fountain-nourished lakelet. 



Everywhere he is pursued eagerly, and esteemed a prize 

 worthy of the sportsman's skill and the epicure's idolatry. To 

 the northward and eastward he is, however, both the finest and 

 the most plentiful. The rivers of New Brunswick and Nova 

 Scotia swarm with Brook Trout ranging from half a pound to 

 five pounds in weight. In the streams of Maine and New 

 England they are equally abundant, although they are generally 

 smaller in size, and are for the most part taken in the small 

 mountain streams from which they rarely run down to salt 



