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white silvery color increases. The flavor of sea-run 

 trout increases in delicacy and the meat in curdiness. 

 The sea trout often rise and take the fly intended for 

 talmon in the Canadian rivers, and often to the annoy- 

 ance of the caster. While they come early into the 

 fresh-water streams, they remain late and afford much 

 sport in the lower Canadian rivers after the close of 

 the salmon season, and I have frequently lingered late 

 in the year for this fishing, which is multitudinous 

 in pleasant features. 



No waters can be clearer than those of the Resti- 

 gouche, which are of limpid purity, beyond any I have 

 ever seen. The flow is over a bed where all alluvial 

 matter seems to have been washed away, and after 

 severe storms, when the volume of water is increased 

 tenfold over the normal amount, and when one on the 

 shore can hear the rolling of the bottom stones carried 

 on by the abnormal rush, the water is still of trans- 

 parent clearness. On one reach of the Restigouche in 

 the autumn, where the water was shallow on an ex- 

 tended area, I observed from my canoe an occasional 

 darting of trout ; but owing to the clearness of the day 

 and water, I could not raise one excepting from a very 

 long cast, which was tiresome, and if I let my fly float 

 down the current upon an extended line it was apt to 

 sink and catch on the bottom. I attached two goose 

 quills on my leader within a foot of the fly to float it, 

 and let out my line a hundred feet or more, from which 

 I had an exciting success. 



I N California there are many attractions for the sports- 

 *■ men in the endless variety of game birds and ani- 

 mals, and in the streams, where trout are plentiful, and 



