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idea may be formed of the sport in store for the visitor 

 to the salmon rivers of the West. 



The tackle in use in England will answer here, the 

 size of flies being guided by the water and weather, 

 still I would advise some of Canadian tying being 

 added to the stock. The Nova Scotia rivers are now 

 too much fished to waste time upon by the visitor from 

 this side of the Atlantic, so I append a list of the best 

 streams on the northern shore of the St. Lawrence : 

 they are the Outardes, Godbout, Trinity, St. Margaret, 

 Moisa, St. John, Mingan and Esquimaux, the further 

 to the eastward the better. The stream where I had 

 the success narrated entered the sea near the southern 

 end of the Straits of Belle Isle. 



SEA TROUT. That beautiful member of the Salmon 

 family must strike, when mentioned, in the reader's 

 heart a chord that will reverberate with pleasures 

 possibly long past, but none the less delightful to recall. 



In writing upon the present subject, I retreat in 

 thought to the memories of youth, and many and many 

 a scene recurs to my memory of which I was the hero, 

 and the captive valued over all I possessed. The first 

 time I essayed for sea trout was when low in my teens. 

 Previous to this attempt many spotted beauties from 

 the brooks and rivers of my Highland home had filled 

 my creel ; but I was not satiated with such game, for it 

 was far too noble to have such effect ; still I craved to 

 kill a sea trout, for I deemed it correctly the connect- 

 ing link between river trout and lordly salmon. 



Where mountain peak and inland loch, bubbling 

 stream and placid lake combine to make a picture 

 worthy of an artist's eye, or a landscape to be beloved 



