CHAPTER X 



TROUTING IN CANADENSIS VALLEY 



THE Canadensis Valley in Monroe County, Penn- 

 sylvania, is a fontinalis paradise. With my friend 

 George Blake I creeled the little heroes by the dozen 

 every day for a week. We each could have easily 

 caught fifty in an afternoon had we cared to do so, but 

 there were other rural pleasures to attend to, and we 

 were not dealing in fish, and saw more beauty in just 

 enough to eat than in wasteful quantity. Fishermen 

 are generally known as exaggerators, and I do not 

 deny that they do sometimes resort to an innocent 

 little fib when a yarn may amuse many and injure no 

 one, but I must say that this region's beauties are too 

 numerous to overpraise by all the exaggeration of all 

 the fabricators in the world. No word of mouth or 

 pen could do justice to nature in these mountains. 

 And I need not elaborate on the fish; the truth is 

 bold enough. 



Brook trout weighing a quarter of a pound to a 

 pound and a half are taken every day by Anglers, who 

 more than fill their creels. Two gentlemen took in 

 one day sixty-five beauties on the stream known as 

 Stony Run, and two Philadelphia Anglers took half 

 a hundred the day before above the Buckhill Falls. 

 Another great stream in this region is the Bushkill, 

 and still another is Brodhead's Creek. The latter 



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