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larger the color of the spots is more brilliant, and there are more of 

 them ; and the tri-colored fins leave no room for doubt, as the fins of 

 the White Trout are very pale, and of a bluish white. When first 

 lifted from the sea, the backs of the White Trout are of a bluish 

 green, just the color of the wave ; and the under part of the fish 

 sparkles like molten silver." 



In a report of the fly-fishing of the Province, which Mr. Perley 

 was good enough to enclose, I find also the following pertinent remarks 

 on this fish : 



" It is to be understood," he says, " that the whole Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence abounds with White Trout, from one to seven pounds in 

 weight. They proceed up the rivers as far as the head of the tide in 

 each, but they never ascend into the purely fresh water. In the salt- 

 water they are caught only with the ' Prince Edward's Island fly,' so 

 called, the body of which is of scarlet with gold tinsel, or of gold 

 tinsel only, with four wings from feathers of the scarlet ibis the 

 4 curry-curry ' of South America. 



" In the estuaries of rivers where the water is only brackish they 

 take the Irish lake-fly with gay colors ; the scarlet ibis seems the most 

 attractive, however, in all eases. In the fresh-water the Trout are 

 quite different ; they are much longer, very brilliantly colored, with 

 tri-colored fins of black, white and scarlet, and numerous bright spots 

 over the body. When the fish are in good condition these spots are 

 nearly as large as a silver penny. They rarely exceed three pounds 

 in weight, but are a very sporting fish ; they take most of the Irish 

 flies, but the red hackle in all its varieties is the favorite. A brilliant 

 hackle, over a yellow or fiery brown body, kills everywhere, all the 

 season through. 



" The Sea-Trout fishing, in the bays and harbors of * Prince Ed- 

 ward's Island,' especially in June, when the fish first rush in from the 

 gulf, is really magnificent ; they average from three to five pounds 

 each. I found the best fishing at St. Peter's bay, on the north, side 

 of the island, about twenty-eight miles from Charlotte's town. I there 

 killed in one morning sixteen Trout, which weighed eighty pounds. 



" In the bays, and along the coasts of the island, they are taken with 

 the scarlet fly, from a boat under easy sail, with a ' mackerel breeze,' 

 and oftentimes a heavy i ground swell.' The fly skips from wave to 



