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favorite. A brilliant hackle, over a yellow or fiery -brown 

 body, kills everywhere, all the season through. 



" The Sea Trout fishing in the bays and harbors of ' Prince 

 Edward's Island,' especially in June, when the fish first rush 

 in from the gulf, is really magnificent ; they average from 

 three to five pounds each. I found the best fishing at St. 

 Peter's Bay, on the north side of the island, about twenty- 

 eight miles from Charlottestown. I there killed in one 

 morning sixteen Trout, which weighed eighty pounds. 



" In the bays and along the coasts of the island, they are 

 taken with the scarlet fly from a boat under easy sail, with a 

 'mackerel breeze,' and oftentimes a heavy 'ground swell.' 

 The fly skips from wave to wave, at the end of thirty yards 

 of line, and there should be at least seventy yards more on 

 the reel. It is splendid sport ! as a strong fish will make 

 sometimes a long run and give a good chase down the wind." 



There is also a glowing description of what the author calls 

 " Sea Trout" fishing, in a book by Dr. Adamson of Quebec, 

 " Salmon-Fishing in Canada," which will no doubt interest 



the reader : — 



" In writing of flies, for the Canadian rivers, I ought not 

 to omit to state, that in every stream where I have found 

 Salmon, except the Jacques Cartier, the Sea Trout are to be 

 met with in extraordinary abundance, and that they rise 

 freely at any of the usual Salmon flies, provided they are 

 made of a small size, but that the most attractive I know of 

 is a small-sized fly, with a scarlet body, gold twist, red hackle, 

 and stair's wing. 



" The avidity with which these fish take, their great size, 

 beautiful shape, and exquisite flavor, must all be experienced 

 before any account of them can be implicitly believed. 

 Sometimes they become a source of annoyance to the nervous 

 and excited fisherman, who, having prepared a seductive fly 



