STREAMS OF NEWFOUNDLAND 



TROUTING UNDER KILBUDE FALL. 



Here fish after fish may be landed between three and four pounds ; 

 and rare beauties they are ; very close of kin to the aristocrat of 

 the stream the lordly salmon. 



See them on the grass in the red afterglow of a July evening ; 

 rich in colour beyond description ; their backs of mackerel-green, 

 shot with zigzag streaks of glittering bronze ; sides of molten silver ; 

 bellies like pearl, and sometimes touched with a blush of faint pink 

 or rose ; and fins delicately streaked with carmine. Many of them 

 drag the steel spring down at four pounds. 



With what unalloyed pleasure one gathers up such rich spoils at 

 the end of the long sweet summer day, and trudges happily off to 

 Tompkin's comfortable hostelry, with its widespreading acres of 

 cultivated intervale land rather a rare sight in Newfoundland 

 and hands over to the cook a couple of the shining beauties for his 

 evening repast ! 



When sea-trout are newly arrived they will rise, even on a bright 

 day, at almost any description of fly. Above the rocks, forming a 

 sort of dam, where the outlet of the pool begins to curve before it 

 breaks away in a wild dash to the rapids below, the biggest fish are 



