136 PLEASURES OF ANGLING. 



which these primitive modes of angling afford 

 them. Having never cast a fly they have no con- 

 ception of the superiority of that mode of angling 

 over all others, and so soon weary of a pastime 

 which, from its sameness and tameness, fails to 

 attract when something more than mere muscular 

 exercise or physical excitement is required to hold 

 its votaries. A gray-haired bait-fisher is very rare, 

 while the passion for fly-casting, whether for trout 

 or salmon, grows by what it feeds upon, and con- 

 tinues a source of the highest pleasure even after 

 the grasshopper becomes a burden. But this is not 

 strange ; for there is as much difference between 

 these extremes of the art as there is between the 

 harsh music of a hurdy-gurdy and the divine har- 

 mony of the violin. 



There is, however, such a similarity between 

 trout and salmon fishing that pleasure can be found 

 in either by the expert in both. And as trout 

 usually abound in salmon waters, they are often 

 fished for as a rest from the heavy work involved 

 in the capture of salmon. 



Judge FULLERTON had been familiar with trout 

 streams from his youth up. There are few brooks 

 or rivers where trout " most do congregate," from 

 Maine to New Brunswick, in which he has not 

 " slain his thousands." I was not surprised, there- 

 fore, to find him very early hankering after a day's 



