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sessed of a bunch of your flies and a small length of 

 old gut. 



The cast of flies best adapted for general use for trout- 

 fishing in Nova Scotia consists of the red hackle or palmer, 

 a bright bushy scarlet fly, with perhaps a bit of gold twist 

 or tinsel further to enhance its charms, a brown palmer, 

 and a yellow-bodied fly of wool with mallard wings. The 

 latter wing on a body of claret wool with gold tinsel is 

 also excellent. Many other and gaudier flies are made 

 and sold to tempt the fish later on in the year : they 

 are quite fanciful, and resemble nothing in nature. I 

 cannot recommend the artificial minnow for use in this 

 part of the world, though trout will take them. They 

 are always catching on submerged rocks, and are very 

 troublesome in many ways. The most successful minnow 

 1 ever used was one made on the spot by an Indian who 

 was with me after moose — a common large trout-hook 

 thickly bound round with white worsted, a piece of 

 tinfoil covering the under part, and a good bunch of 

 peacock's herl inserted at the head, bound down along 

 the back, and secured at the end of the shank, leaving 

 a little projection to represent the tail. It was light as 

 a feather, and could be thrown very accurately any- 

 where — a great advantage when you find yourself back 

 in the woods and wish to pull a few trout for the camp 

 frying-pan from out a little pond overhung with bushes. 

 The fish took it most greedily. 



The common trout is to be met with in every lake, 

 or even pond, throughout the British Provinces. One 

 cannot walk far through the depths of a forest district 

 before hearing the gurgling of a rill of water amongst 

 stones beneath the moss. Following the stream, one 



