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daily with as delicate morsels as ever melted on 

 human palate. 



It is, however, neighborly to warn all anglers 

 against the assumption that because they may find 

 large and delicious fish at the foot of the Falls 

 there must be equally large and delicate fish up the 

 river. It took several years' experience to convince 

 me that this idea was erroneous. The fish up the 

 river are neither large, abundant nor of delicate 

 flavor. And the farther up you go, the worse you 

 are off, until you strike Hitching' s pond. The 

 fish found at the Falls find their feed and growth 

 and flavor in Big Tupper and adjacent waters. 

 There is something in Bog river which causes a 

 deterioration ; and it is worse still in Little Tupper 

 and its outlet. There the fish are lean and of poor 

 flavor not in winter and early spring alone, for 

 the trout of all waters are infested with unpalata- 

 ble and unseemly parasites until they pass into 

 the rapids in the spring but at all seasons. This 

 positive statement may " turn the stomachs " of 

 some of my friends who like to visit this lake 

 because its trout are sometimes large and always 

 abundant. But I can't help it. Truth is truth, 

 and unclean trout should not be eaten. Little 

 Tupper is a great resort for deer, and it will pay 

 sportsmen to go there for them. But I advise 

 those who persist in complementing their roast 



