244 Fisumng mis AMERICAN WATERS. 
to dinner, we learned that our friends had fished hard for 
modest results. By the supervisory care of the ladies, the 
dinner was served in the following order or menz : 
Vegetable soup. 
Boiled salmon and fried trout. 
Roast mutton, green peas, and other vegetables. 
Claret wine, tea, bread and butter, ete., concluding with a 
dessert of marmalade and dried fruits. 
After dinner we concluded to rest the pools, burn some to- 
bacco, and tie some flies. When we first began angling, the 
preference by the salmon seemed to be given to the Montreal 
fly, or a purple body, brown mallard wings, and tail from the 
top-knot of the golden pheasant; but within the last two 
days they would not touch it. Their next favorite was a 
good imitation of the real salmon fly, body and wings light 
eray; but after a couple of days more they refused all flies 
but those with a preponderance of bright yellow and orange, 
tied on a very small hook.- The double-hook flies were the 
most successful in bringing salmon to gaff, but I never tried 
them; and it is contended by some that two small hooks fall 
better, and are more attractive than a single one. Forrest, 
of Kelso, is the favorite fly-maker with Canadian anglers, and 
he generally ties on a double hook. 
SECTION EIGHTH. 
FLY-FISHING BELOW THE FALLS, 
‘* Below the Falls of St. John, from deep crevice stealing, 
The bright salmon watches his prey, 
And when ‘mid the white foam some stray fly lies wheelin 
yo) g) 
Slyly bears—slyly bears it away. 
‘Tis thus in this bright world, at joys without measure, 
Unheeding, we ardently spring, 
And forget that oft hid by the plumage of pleasure 
Lies a hook—lies a hook in the wing.”—StToppanrt. 
To a man unaccustomed to the broad, rushing, tumbling 
torrents which debouch in the Gulf of St. Lawrence from the 
north, there are many subjects to inspire wonder, and some 
