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And, as if for compensation, there are times and 

 places when the brook-trout come to the angler's lures, 

 and sometimes to his net, at the rate of two and even 

 three at a single cast. Many are the instances within 

 my personal knowledge where a trout has been played 

 and lost and has returned almost immediately to the 

 same gay deceit. Often has the last state of such fish 

 been worse than his first, and a recently lost hook and 

 broken leader been found in the mouth of a freshly 

 killed specimen. Fishing not long ago with a friend, 

 one on either side of a narrow stream, we were fast to 

 fish within a few seconds of each other. It was not 

 very long before it became patent that we had both 

 hooked the same trout. It proved, when taken out 

 of the water, to be a fine female fish of about half a 

 pound in weight. The flies it had taken had been a 

 Professor and a Brown Hackle. The question might 

 have occurred, in the general counting-up of our fish, 

 whose should she be ? for we both had her to fight ; 

 but my friend let out line enough for me to lead 

 the fish upon a gently sloping shoal, and we divided 

 its well -fried flakes at our breakfast a half -hour 

 later. 



Of the flies employed in northern Canada, the most 

 taking of all for brook -trout is undoubtedly the Par- 

 machenee Belle. Afterwards, in the order named, I 

 prefer the Professor, Queen of the Water, Jock Scott, 

 Silver Doctor, Brown Hackle, Coch-y-bondhu, Beaver- 

 kill, Montreal, Green Drake, and Coachman. The list 

 of useful trout flies can of course be indefinitely in- 

 creased, but a collection that will include specimens 

 of most of those named above will be found quite suf- 



