258 FISHING IN AMERICAN WATERS. 



a lordly salmon move majestically among the speckled beau- 

 ties, no doubt waiting for a shower to swell the waters, and 

 enable him to start on his perilous voyage to the spawning- 

 grounds near the head of the river. As we were fishing from 

 the beach which forms the breakwater at the mouth of the 

 St. John, my attention was arrested by a thirty-pound sal; 

 mon swimming along slowly toward the mouth, and within 

 easy casting distance for my single-banded trout-rod. As I 

 was admiring him, he chanced to see my motion in casting, 

 and dashed away into the sparkling surf at the mouth of the 

 river. 



Taking trout with the fly is always more or less interest- 

 ing, but, as a branch of sport, it dwindles greatly on return- 

 ing from a successful trip of angling for salmon. Broadway 

 is beautiful to those who have never visited Paris ; but on 

 returning from the Boulevards, the Champs Ely sees, and the 

 Hois de Boulogne, the beauties which he contemplated with 

 admiration before he left New York lack the charm of artist- 

 ic finish and the picturesque variety which youth always per- 

 ceives, but which age or experience can not discover even 

 with the aid of glasses. 



THE WHITE TROUT. 



While the fog is lifting from Schoodic Lake, 

 And the white trout are leaping for flies, 



It's exciting sport these beauties to take, 

 Jogging the nerves and feasting the eyes. 



This trout inhabits Schoodic and Grand Lakes in the State 

 of Maine. Although it is eminently a lake fish, yet it is found 

 in the tributaries and outlets near the lakes named. It is 

 similar to the hirling in Scotland in the peculiarity of its 

 meat varying from cream to mallow color. The average size 

 of the white trout is from three to five pounds' weight, and 

 in outline it is between the salmon arid the brook trout, with 

 the top of head and color of dorsal and caudal fins black and 

 lustrous as velvet, the latter crescent-shaped, with jet spots 



