DEUM FISHING. 



[POGONIAS CHEOMIS.] 



BEAUFOUT, 8. C. 



ME. EDITOR : I comply with your request, that 

 I would furnish you with some account of our favor- 

 ite sport of " drum fishing," though I arn aware 

 that the detail will interest but a small portion of 

 your readers. 



These fish are so called, from the noise thay 

 make, resembling the tap of a drum, and so loud, 

 that in calm weather and in the afternoon (which 

 is their favorite time for drumming), it may be 

 heard at the distance of several hundred yards 

 from the river. They are known to frequent our 

 waters during every month of the year except two. 

 (December and January), yet it is only during the 

 spawning season that they drum at all other sea- 

 sons they are mute it is the universal passion alone 

 that gives them utterance ! It is only at this 

 season, too, that they take the hook: at other 



