Sea- Trout Fishing. 



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THE I.ACHINE KAi'IDS, ST. LAWRENCE KIVI-'.R. 



a lingering and indifferent salmon or two on their upward run would 

 become filled during the following night with the vanguard of the 

 advancing body of large sea-trout. In a general way, it may be said 

 that the season for the latter begins when that for the former ends, 

 though belated salmon are often intermingled for a time in the same 

 pools with the first-comers among the sea-trout. A very backward 



on, or a dash of cold storm crossing the summer, as it sometimes 

 does in those regions, may delay their approach to the shore for a 

 few days, but not materially. For a time they hover about the out- 



<»f the streams, haunting the reefs and passing out and in with 

 the ebb and flow, seeming to grow gradually accustomed to the fresh 

 water, till a higher tide helps to lift them over the bars and among 

 the rocky passes of the rapids that abound in the smaller rivers. 

 Very good sport may be had for a time in taking them at the 

 mouths of the streams, from the long sand-spits past which some of 

 these empty, or the slippery rocks and jagged reefs barring their 

 discharge. At the distance of a far cast from the shore, their back 

 finfl show pointing above the surface of the incoming waters, whose 

 breadth gives free space for long and vigorous runs. The guides 

 and Indians will tell you — and experience proves them to be quite 

 in the right — that the run of the fish is governed by the moon, and 

 when she is full or new. At those periods they pursue 

 their way up tin- stream in larger numbers, limply because the 

 higher tides then prevailing aid them to pass the bars and rapids. 



