rm; dkadlv sruuN. ;jt'.:j 



within, :uul l)ra/.C(l without, iittac-hi-il hy u swivel at th(^ h)Wi'r 

 I'xtriMnity to a stout tripU' htjuk, aiul at the upper to a piece of 

 stroni; gimp — which is so murderously destructive to the Hhnk 

 Hass of the St. Lawrence, and the Mascalougc — would he louiul 

 no less cflcctivc with the (Jrcat Lake Trout ; nor if auv oue 

 should think it worth tiic while, would any harm he thouj^ht of 

 his ap[>lying any invention, however slaughtering; and poacher- 

 like, to so base and caitiff a tish as the Lake Salmon. 



Of Hack's (Jrayling it is almost unnecessary here to speak, so 

 far north an- his customary haunts, and s(j viry (iiHieidt and 

 expensive is it to reach the di>triets in which oidy he exists. 

 This is the more to be regretted for that he is one (»f the linest, 

 if not the very finest, of all the Sporting Fishes of America, lie 

 is the boldest of biters at a fly, taking all those flies which are 

 most preferred by the Brook Trout, leaping many times out of 

 the water in his efforts to extricate himself from the hook, nor 

 ever succuml>ing to his captor's will without a desperate resist- 

 ance and a severe conflict. His flesh is no less delicious, and 

 his excellence at the board in no wise inferior to his spirit, or 

 the beauty of his colouring. 



Of till- Attihawnu'u' or White Fish of the great lakes, of the 

 Otsego Bass, or as I should desire to have it hereafter called, 

 the Otsego Lavaret, and of the little Smelt, which arc all mcm- 

 l)crs of this same noble family, it needs not to make farther 

 mention. They all have been occasionally taken with the fly, 

 and will all undoubtedly be oftentimes again so captured, but 

 the certainty of their rising is by no means suflicient to warrant 

 the fisherman in wiisting much time in their pursuit. 



I n>ay here, Ijcforc finishing this head of my subject, obscrxe 



