INLAND TROUT FISHING. 



The reader, of course, will not confound the fish which forms the sub- 

 ject of the following paper, with the not less beautiful Sea-Trout men- 

 tioned in the previous article. This, whatever its size, or whether found 

 in stream or lake, is our familiar old friend JSalmo fontinalis. My 

 purpose here is to give the account furnished in the subjoined paper, 

 of one of the localities where its size surpasses that of the Trout of 

 any region yet explored by the fly-fisher. It is from the pen of 

 Elisha J. Lewis, M. D., author of " The American Sportsman, '^ 

 editor of '• Youatt on the Dog," and writer of many humorous stories 

 and incidents of sporting life. 



A PISCATORIAL EXCURSION IN THE AUTUMN OF 1864, TO LAKES 

 UMBAGOG AND MOLLYCHUNKEMUNK; WITH A DESCRIPTION OF 

 RAPID RIVER, STATE OF MAINE. 



Being advised, brother angler, that you were about putting through 

 the press a second edition of your very attractive volume on American 

 angling, I thought it would not be amiss to give you a short sketch " currente 

 calamo" of a piscatorial trip to Oxford county, Maine, during the autumn 

 of 1864. 



Having been unavoidably detained in the city during the whole 

 of the summer solstice, I found myself, at the close of the hot season, 

 considerably enervated by the long confinement within the narrow radius 

 of hot brick and mortar. Being now at leisure, I naturally, as is my 

 wont at this season of the year, began to cast about for some retired nook 



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