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three-eighths ; another weighs eight pounds and a quarter ; 

 and another, seven and a quarter pounds. Two others 

 weighed six pounds and a quarter and six pounds; one 

 weighed five and a half, and two five pounds each. 



•' These fish are all the catch of two gentlemen, Mr. Page 

 and Mr. R. O. Stanley, of Maine, in the early part of the 

 present month. In eight days they caught two hundred and 

 seventy-three pounds, steelyard weight, and the fish caught 

 averaged three and a half pounds each. 



" Mr. Page desires us to say that all these fish were caught 

 in fair play, with the fly. Trout-fishermen must look out 

 for their laurels." 



If these fish were caught in the St. Croix River or its 

 tributaries in Maine, they may have been the Schoodic 

 Trout, Salmo Oloveri. One who is not accustomed to mark 

 specific differences, may easily have beBn deceived, though 

 there are some instances of Brook Trout exceeding even the 

 size of the Schoodic Trout. 



Sir Humphrey Davy, in his " Salmonia," gives the reader 

 the impression that in strictly preserved streams in England, 

 Trout under two pounds are not basketed, but returned to 

 the water. This is by no means a general rule. Last sum- 

 mer, in looking over an English angler's fly-book with him, 

 he produced his written authority, signed by the steward of 

 some nobleman, I think the Duke of Northumberland, to fish 

 a certain water. The prper specified that the catch of the 

 angler should at any time be subject to the inspection of the 

 gamekeeper and that he should basket no fish under four 

 inches. 



