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one way and then another, till the fun became hard work, 

 and the exertion caused globules of perspiration to stand 

 on my face, and worse than all, the confounded flies attacked 

 me with renewed vigour, availing themselves of my unpro- 

 tected situation. Again and again I took in line, as 

 frequently to be run out ; but the exertion had told on the 

 foe, and at length I succeeded in getting him ultimately 

 gaffed. Truly he was a beauty twenty pounds if an 

 ounce. From what I have above narrated, some idea may 

 be formed of the sport in store for the visitor to the salmon 

 rivers of the West. 



The tackle in use in England will answer here, the size 

 of flies being guided by the water and weather, still I 

 would advise some of Canadian tying being added to 

 the stock. The Nova Scotia rivers are now too much 

 fished to waste time upon by the visitor from this side of 

 the Atlantic, so I append a list of the best streams on the 

 northern shore of the St. Lawrence : they are the Outardes, 

 Godbout, Trinity, St. Margaret, Moisa, St. John, Mingan 

 and Esquimaux, the further to the eastward the better. 

 The stream where I had the success narrated entered the 

 sea near the southern end of the Straits of Belle Isle. 



SEA-TROUT. That beautiful member of the Salmon 

 family must strike, when mentioned, in the reader's heart 

 a chord that will reverberate with pleasures possibly long 

 past, but none the less delightful to recall. 



In writing upon the present subject, I retreat in thought 

 to the memories of youth, and many and many a scene 

 recurs to my memory of which I was the hero, and the 



