IN A FISHING COUNTRY 



deduces the weight of Nepigon trout up 

 to five and a quarter pounds from their 

 length, and is doubtless reliable for that 

 river; but girth varies greatly in different 

 waters, particularly with large fish, and 

 must be reckoned as a factor if the estimate 

 is to approach accuracy. At best you can 

 only reach an approximation — as any one 

 may discover by applying the formulas.* 



Nothing endears the Celt so much to us 

 as his resiliency, — his swift leaps from pro- 

 fundities of gloom to a radiancy of joy. I 

 have intimated that my companion, — upon 

 whom, '■s an honest fisherman, God surely 

 did not scamp his handiwork, — betrayed 

 some discontent with the rain and the cold 

 and the lack of sport. When a landing on 

 the boulders was proposed, there dropped 

 from him the remark: — 'What's the san- 



* The Ellis equation :— W = Jii- 



2285 



An equation from the 'Fishing Gazette:— W = 



_ (L + iL)«G 



1000 



One from a friend's nnte-book: — W = ii.*'-'— 



800 



The second and third formulas give this fish more than 

 four and a half pounds. They both yield results quite 

 absi-rdiy excessive in the case of brook trout above six 

 pounds in weight, but it is fair to say that they are cal- 

 culated for the brown trout. 



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