•346 TROUT FISHING. 



and a half pounds ; and the true angler well knows that a well- 

 conditioned fresh-run fish, from this size to a pound larger, on 

 the finest and most delicate tackle, will give him nothing of 

 which to complain in the way of exercise or excitement. 



" At a short distance from Snedecor's is another stream, 

 known as Green's Creek, which contains a peculiar and distinct 

 variety of Trout, which is called in that district the Silver Trout. 

 I have not seen this fish, but learn from good sportsmen that it 

 is of a much lighter and more pearly hue than the common 

 Trout, the bright and silvery lustre of the scales prevailing over 

 the back and shoulders. It is crimson spotted, but the fins are 

 less strongly yellow, and it is perhaps a slenderer fish in form. 

 The flesh is said to be firm and well-flavoured. The Silver Trout 

 is rarely taken much over or much under a pound in weight, 

 and rises to the fly or takes the bait indiscriminately. This 

 stream has, I know not wherefore, of late years lost much of its 

 celebrity, and is rarely visited by the best sportsmen. 



At Patchogue, yet a few miles further, there is a very large 

 pond, which was formerly perhaps the most famous on the 

 island, both for the abundance and the size of the fish which it 

 contained. They have, however, become latterly so scarce, that 

 few persons from a distance think it worth while to pause there, 

 but proceed at once to Sam Carman's, at Fireplace, eighteen 

 miles eastward from Lifl\ Snedecor's; these two being in fact 

 the par excellence fishing grounds of the Island, and the diff'er- 

 ence between the two rather a matter of individual prejudice and 

 fancy, than of any real or well-grounded opinion. 



" The character of the fishing at Fireplace is nearly similar 

 to that at Islip ; the stream flowing from the pond is larger, and 



