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Sea - Trout Fishing. 



CLEARING FOR A CAMP. 



and hopeless tacks, turning tail to the blast each evening and 

 bounding back for miles into some sheltered cove under the cliffs ; 

 and five days wasted in prematurely using up the stock of novels, 

 counting wild ducks cutting the mist, listening for the blow of the 

 grampus like escape steam, — gibors, the natives call him, — and 

 watching the graceful roll of the white porpoises. After making 

 the mouth of the stream, a favoring tide must be waited for, to 

 carry our craft a couple of miles up its winding channel, in search 

 of a good anchorage. Jt is safer to retain the chaloupe during all 

 the angler's stay. If she is dismissed, there is no certainty of her 

 arriving again within a week of the appointed day, and with the 

 possibility of illness or accident in these solitudes, — though these 

 are mishaps the sportsman never counts on, — it is well to have the 

 means of immediate return at hand. Besides, the vessel serves as a 

 convenient store-house, to be visited from up-stream for fresh sup- 

 plies, and for relieving the camp of accumulating fish. Higher than 

 the flow of the tide it is not possible to carry the chaloupe, and about 



