364 LAKE TROUT FISHING. 



that in fact there is scarcely any fish, which will not apparently, 

 from some whim or other, take the fly on the surface. I have 

 myself so caught the Striped Bass, the Shad, the Herring, and 

 the Northern Pickerel, with the Salmon-fly. All the family of 

 the small Cyprinidce, as the Roach, Dace, Bream, and Chub, 

 will at times bite freely. In the Black River a species of this 

 family rises very freely, and gives good sport. It is there called 

 the Chub, and is, I believe, identical with another of the same 

 division, known as the Wind Fish, in some of the streams of 

 Duchess County, in the State of New York ; and a thoroughly 

 good fisherman of the city informed me yesterday that he had 

 even caught Suckers with a Trout- fly, a fact which, but for the 

 very great respectability of the source whence I derived the 

 information, I should hardly have been inclined to credit. 



None of these unimportant little fish, however, give sport 

 enough, or are sufliciently good on the table, to make them 

 worthy the pursuit of other than boys, snobs, and the ladies, 

 who must pardon me for the company into which I have intro- 

 duced them, certainly not according to then* merits, or my 

 estimation of them. 



