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On the same page, you quote from Dr. DeKay, that this Trout has 

 " the coarseness of the Halibut, without its flavor ;" and subsequently 

 assert, as your own opinion, " that this is the most worthless of all the 

 non-migratory species." I think that you are mistaken my reasons 

 presently. On page 274 to 276, you also use the following expres- 

 sions : " These great, bad and unsporting fish," &c., " with a bullet at 

 the end of two hundred yards of line, run rapidly through the wa- 

 ter." " He is very indifferent eating." 



I disagree with you. "Every man to his taste." "What's one 

 man's meat is another man's poison." I prefer a Lake Trout to the 

 best Brook Trout dori*t laugh ! Now for my proof. To my know- 

 ledge, Lake Trout are preferred at John C. Holmes', the proprietor 

 of Lake Pleasant House, to anything you can lay on the table. The 

 nine pound and a quarter Trout to which I have before alluded, was 

 eaten in this city, at the house of a mutual friend of ours, and was de- 

 clared to be a glorious morsel. The sixteen pound and a half Trout 

 was eaten at a friend's house in Broadway ; seventeen persons, myself 

 among them, partook of it, and I never heard anything surpass the 

 praise of all ; and for myself, let me say, that I never tasted a finer 

 fish. He was boiled and eaten with plain drawn butter, or as house- 

 keepers and cooks call it, I believe, " parsley and butter ;" and during 

 my sojourn in the woods, my friend and myself invariably preferred 

 and had the small Lake Trout cooked by our guides. If it be " very 

 indifferent eating," then I am easily pleased, and every person with 

 whom 1 have spoken on the subject are no judges of fish flesh. 



Have you fished for Lake Trout in Hamilton county ? I presume 

 not, for most assuredly you labor under a mistake as to the " modus 

 operandi." 



Your instruction on lines, 9, 10, 11, page 274, is incorrect, and 

 tends to lead the novice astray. Our friend of the " Spirit " is much 

 nearer the mark, but the instruction is defective, as you have quoted 

 it. I believe that no portion of your work was more anxiously looked 

 for, than your views, direction and instruction upon fishing for Lake 

 Trout. Hamilton county is becoming known ; and as the majority of 

 anglers never can and never will be " fly-fishers," trolling for Lake 

 Trout is destined to be the prevailing mode of fishing in that county 

 of great waters. Now, I propose to give you a description of the true, 



