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TROUT FISHING. 



THIS charming sport, second only in its excitement to the skill 

 which it requires, and in the quality of the captive, to its elder sister, 

 Salmon-fishing, cannot be enjoyed in any part of the known world in 

 greater perfection than on the northern continent of America. 



Everywhere from the Arctic Circle to somewhere about the forty- 

 fourth degree of north latitude, everywhere from the mouth of the St. 

 Lawrence and the wild shores of Gaspe and Chaleurs to the far coasts 

 of the Pacific, and the swift streams of Oregon, this beautiful and 

 active fish is found abundant, in every spring-stream and fountain- 

 nourished lakelet. 



Everywhere he is pursued eagerly, and esteemed a prize worthy of 

 the sportsman's skill and the epicure's idolatry. To the northward 

 and eastward he is, however, both the finest and the most plentiful. 

 The rivers of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia swarm with Brook 

 Trout ranging from half a pound to five pounds in weight. In the 

 streams of Maine and New England they are equally abundant, 

 although they are generally smaller in size, and are for the most part 

 taken in the small mountain streams from which they rarely run down 

 to salt water ; whence their colors are less brilliant, and their flesh 

 inferior in flavor. 



In the State of New York they are of unrivalled excellence, and 

 are found in vast numbers, especially in the streams of the south side 

 of Long Island, in the lakes and rivers of the north-eastern counties 

 which debouch into the basin of the St. Lawrence, and in all the 

 streams of the south-western tier of counties which find their way 

 southwardly into the Delaware, the Susquehannah and the Alleghany. 



All the waters of Northern and Western Pennsylvania are likewise 

 admirably stocked with this delicious and game fish, nor has any one 

 need to seek better sport than he can find at Carman's or Snedecors 

 on Long Island. In the Marshpee river, on Cape Cod, famous as being 



