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hunt for trout. Nor was I any more surprised to 

 find him returning to camp long before half the 

 day was over, with thirty-five pounds of splendid 

 fish, ranging from half a pound to three pounds in 

 weight. Subsequently he met with even greater 

 success once taking forty -five pounds during a 

 short afternoon. As an experiment, I myself caught 

 sixteen large trout in thirty minutes, with an eight- 

 ounce rod, without a landing net. It was unsports- 

 manlike sport. My only excuse was to see what 

 could be done in these waters ; and as the fish could 

 all be put to good use, there was no waste and con- 

 sequently no upbraidings of conscience. 



The trout in the Cascapedia, and, indeed, in all 

 these salmon rivers, are mostly sea trout, running 

 up the rivers every season, like salmon, to spawn. 

 When they leave the salt water, their spots have 

 scarcely the slightest tinge of crimson. Later, they 

 assume a somewhat brighter hue ; but they never 

 attain the beautiful brilliancy of the brook-trout in 

 our home streams. Nor, as a rule, do they rise as 

 sprightly to the fly. Indeed, like salmon, they 

 usually strike without projecting themselves so 

 much as their head's length above the surface. But 

 they are strong, and as they run much larger than 

 the average brook-trout in any of our home waters 

 (save, perhaps, the Rangely lakes), they afford 

 splendid play, and often draw the angler away 



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