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newed vigor, availing themselves of my unprotected situa- 

 tion. Again and again I took in line as frequently to be 

 run out ; but the exertion had told on the foe, and at length 

 I succeeded in getting him ultimately gaffed. Truly he 

 was a beauty twenty pounds, if an ounce. From what 

 I have above narrated, some idea may be formed of the 

 sport in store for the visitor to the salmon rivers of the 

 West. 



The tackle in use in England will answer here, the size 

 of flies being guided by the water and weather; still I 

 would advise some of Canadian tying being added to the 

 stock. The Nova Scotia rivers are now too much fished 

 to waste time upon by the visitor from this side of the 

 Atlantic, so I append a list of the best streams on the 

 northern shore of the St. Lawrence : they are the Outardes, 

 Godbout, Trinity, St. Margaret, Moisa, St. John, Mingan, 

 and Esquimaux, the farther to the eastward the better. 

 The stream where I had the success narrated entered the 

 sea near the southern end of the Straits of Belle Isle. 



SEA-TROUT* 



That beautiful member of the salmon family must strike, 

 when mentioned, in the reader's heart a chord that will 

 reverberate with pleasures possibly long past, but none the 

 less delightful to recall. 



In writing upon the present subject, I retreat in thought 

 to the memories of youth, and many and many a scene re- 

 curs to my memory of which I was the hero, and the cap- 

 tive valued over all I possessed. The first time I essayed 

 for sea-trout was when low in my teens. Previous to this 

 attempt many spotted beauties from the brooks and rivers 

 of my Highland home had filled my creel; but I was not 

 satiated with such game, for it was. far too noble to have 

 such effect ; still I craved to kill a sea-trout, for I deemed 



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