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with small ribs ; they are clinker built, and about fourteen 

 feet long and four feet wide, and are intended for one angler 

 and his guide. The guide has a seat toward the bow, and 

 the angler takes a seat near the stern, either to troll or fly- 

 iish. Between the angler and guide is a basket of heavy 

 splints and thick oaken cover, opening across the middle by 

 brass hinges. On the bottom of the basket is placed a huge 

 lump of ice wrapped in a woolen blanket, above which or 

 half way up the basket is a piece of canvas, attached by 

 strings to the basket, and fitting all round. The guide rows 

 along the margin of the lake, and when approaching a stream 

 which falls from the mountain into the lake, turns the stern 

 toward it and backs the boat to within casting distance, and 

 when the angler hooks a trout the guide rows out away from 

 shore, where the fish is played and landed without alarming 

 the other fish of the pool. The guide draws the fish at once, 

 throws it into the basket on the canvas above the ice, and 

 then backs the boat toward the shore for the angler to take 

 another. This is a deliberate way of angling, by which the 

 pools at the mouth of every brook are tendered the choice 

 of a cast of flies, and yield their tithe as pay for their cruel 

 curiosity. 



Lake Massapiqua, at South Oyster Bay, on Long Island, is 

 probably the best trout preserve in the United States. It is 

 owned by William Floyd Jones, Esq., who is one of the finest 

 samples of an American gentleman. The preserve covers 

 eighty acres, and is fed by a spring-brook which is seven 

 miles in length, and all of it on Mr. Jones's estate. This gen- 

 tleman maintains the preserve for his exclusive use and that 

 of his invited guests, who are the ardent disciples of the angle 

 and promoters of field-sports. Not only for his fish-preserve 

 and his system of fish -culture is Mr. Jones pre-eminent, 

 but as a farmer and horticulturist, a sportsman of first-class 

 in all its ennobling features, from the winter joy of following 

 the hounds to the refined and contemplative amusement of 

 casting the fly, he is worthy of emulation by all who would 



