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sister cities on the seaboard with this high-priced and 

 favorite dainty. It is singular that in the United States, 

 where so much attention is given to every other form of 

 industry, every other source of national wealth, so little 

 has been paid to that very valuable resource, the sea and 

 river fisheries. 



But now to turn from the fish to the fishing. This 

 sport is attainable on all salmon rivers above tide-water, 

 or at about the meeting of the fresh and salt, by the 

 sportsman, during the whole of the month of July and 

 of August, and on some waters in the earlier part of Sep- 

 tember. There are but two ways of taking the salmon 

 with the hook "usually practiced by sporting fishermen, 

 and one of these even rarely as compared with the other 

 the best, most scientific, most orthodox, and most suc- 

 cessful, is casting with the artificial fly ; the second, 

 which will often kill good fish, when the water is too 

 foul, after heavy rains or freshets, to allow their rising to 

 the fly, and at the meeting of the salt and fresh, is spin- 

 ning or trolling with the minnow, the young trout in its 

 parr state, the smelt, or the sand launce, occasionally in 

 deep, still pools, the salmon will take a hook heavily 

 shotted, and baited with two large dew-worms ; and 

 always and infallibly it will greedily seize one baited 

 with its own roe potted and preserved with salt. 



The former of these methods is, however, slow, uncer- 

 tain, tedious, and inferior both as to sport and success to 

 any of the rest. The latter is so deadly and unerring 



