Sea - Trout Fishing. 



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THE HOME CAMP. 



side a deep pool, the breadth of a fair cast, and some sixty feet long. 

 The farther side of this depression is a shelving wall, full of crevices 

 and nooks, and the camp side a grassy bank four or five feet high, 

 fringed at either end with bushes. Into the pool, above the turn, 

 dashes a pretty run of swift water, three feet deep, with excellent 

 wading ground. This little promontory is the only cleared spot on 

 the stream. The trees were felled more than twenty years ago by 

 an English baronet, who encamped with a retinue on this plateau, 

 and has left traditions of famous sport. His forest lodge was chosen 

 with the eye of a Nimrod, whose other eye must have been a land- 

 scape painter's. This basin is very seldom empty of trout. Last 

 season, eleven fish weighing seventeen pounds were taken from it 

 within an hour before breakfast by one rod, and the whole yield 

 of the pool during the four days for which it was vexed only with a 

 few casts at morning and evening was seventy-two fish. 



A description of the peculiarities of a lodge in this vast wilder- 

 . and of the obstacles to penetrating it and the devices for sur- 

 mounting them, will probably not interest woodsmen, who are familiar 

 with them all. But the greater part of readers have rather vague 

 notions of a camp, a canoe, or a rapid ; and to them a rough sketch 

 of these features of a life in the woods may be interesting. 



We " build our light town of canvas " with the precision of Roman 

 camp-pitching. Removed from the bank so far that no backward- 



