SEA-TROUT FISHING. 651 



half hour we had bagged as many Sea-Trout, from nine to fifteen 

 inches long, as a man could carry. On counting them when we 

 returned to camp, we found we had killed one hundred and sixty-nine. 

 We might as easily have taken a thousand, if we had kept on fishing. 

 I would recommend the excursionist visiting the Province of New 

 Brunswick, to embark some fine May morning on one of the staunch 

 and commodious steamers which leave Boston every Tuesday and 

 Thursday for St. John ; the approach to which city is pictured in the 

 little wood engraving at the head of this chapter. He will most 

 likely arrive early in the afternoon of the next day. If the tide is 

 out he will see the wharf towering above the tops of the steamer's 

 smoke-stacks, for the tide here rises and falls about thirty-five feet. 

 When he walks up the long wooden staging that leads to the top of 

 the wharf, he may have to answer a few civil questions propounded 

 by a custom-house officer, and then he will go to an excellent, though 

 not showy hotel, the Waverley. If he should then call on my friend, 

 J. W. Nicholson, a merchant, — I need not say a thorough angler — 

 of St. John, I bespeak for him a kind reception and complete posting 

 as to Sea-Trout fishing in Nova Scotia and on Prince Edward's 

 Island, whither steamers ply once or twice a week. The day of 

 sailing can be ascertained beforehand from the St. John papers. If 

 the angler should prefer going to the' Bay of Chaleurs, he should 

 take the railroad to Shediac, and then the stage by way of Chatham 

 to Bathurst, and make the latter his base of operations. From this 

 he can make excursions to Bass River, the Nigadou,* Little Nipissiguit, 

 Tittigouche, and Big Nipissiguit. The last two enter the harbour at 

 Bathurst; the others are from seven to ten miles distant. These 

 streams are in season at the head of tide, from the middle to the last 

 of May. Later in the season the trip might be extended to Dalhousie, 

 where canoes can be had and the Little Cascapediac reached in a day. 

 Here the Sea-Trout are said to be taken in the month of August of 

 immense size. There is good Sea-Trout fishing in the Tabasintac, 



* I give the name of this stream as it is pronounced ; I have done so in one or 

 two other instances, where the name cannot be found on any map within my reach. 



