F,OX(; ISLAND TH<»IT FISHINi;. :ir,l 



that, as a general ruli', i\\c minnow, with spinninj^ or troUinj; 

 tackle, is found to hi- more killinj; than j^round l)ait in tlir 

 ponds, and vice rfi\sii, in thr tidi- streams — pruhahly tVoni tlic 

 mere faet that the minnow is the rart-r in the one water, the 

 red-worm in the other, and that each hy its rarity becomes the 

 greater dainty." 



lUyond this I ha\c nothin;; t(» add, with ri'spect to Troiit- 

 fishinjr, with the exception of a fi-w vi-ry <;i'iicral ohscrNations 

 on the most likrly times, seasons, and places in wiiicli to tish 

 for the Trout, since the mode of takin;; tlicm with the fiv is in 

 all respects the same as that already ^i\('n uiuhr the head of 

 Salmon-fishing, the modes of cisting for, striking and playing 

 these kindred fishes being in all respects identical. 



In tlie first place, 1 am clearly of o|)inion that for xcry early 

 fishing in March and April there is no place on this continent 

 at all comj)arable to Long Island, where all along the south 

 shore they can he taken in numbers almost innumcrahh-, in 

 every pond, stream, and salt creek, until the end of July, 

 when they cease to bite freely. It is worthy of observation 

 that very early in the season the bait is more killing than 

 the fly, ))ut that from May to the end of the season the fly- 

 fisher will till his creel when the baittisher will go empty- 

 handed home. 



In the salt creeks the tish takes the tly far less willingly than 

 the bait ; and in Carman's Creek, which is yen.' decidedly the 

 beat Trout river on I.iong Island, it is saitl there is but one 

 example of a fish being killed with the fly. by an old friend of 

 my own, Mr. Luxford, fornu'rly of II. M.'^ Iui\al Dragoons, in 

 whose eye, should this meet it, thcs** words n»ay awaken not 



