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SEA-TROUT FISHING. 



Before oflfering any additional remarks on Sea-Trout fishing, it 

 would be well to say something of the fish itself, and caution the 

 reading angler who takes an interest in the natural history of his 

 prey, against the old error of Mr. Perley and •' Frank Forester," 

 which the latter reiterates in his supplement to the last edition of 

 his '• Fish and Fishing." The original error in the volume of his 

 book I have already commented on in my observ^ations on the specific 

 character and habits of the fish. The author in question says, on 

 page 377 of his last edition : — 



'* When speaking of this beautiful fish — which, by the aid of my friend 

 Mr. Perley, of the city of St. John, I have been enabled fully to establish 

 for the first time as an unquestionable inhabitant of our waters — I men- 

 tioned, on page 277, the singular fact that this fish, although it enters 

 every river and estuary on the eastern side of Nova Scotia, and runs up so 

 far as the meeting of the tidal and fresh waters, does not run up into the 

 shoals, or spawn in the gravel beds of any of those rivers. 



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