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58 Fisurmse iw AmMerioan WATERS. 
a lordly salmon move majestically among the speckled beau- 
ties, no doubt waiting for a shower to swell the waters, and 
enable him to start on his perilous voyage to the spawning- 
erounds near the head of the river. As we were fishing from 
the beach which forms the breakwater at the mouth of the 
St. John, my attention was arrested by a thirty-pound sal- 
mon swimming along slowly toward the mouth, and within 
easy casting distance for my single-banded trout-rod. As I 
was admiring him, he chanced to see my motion in casting, 
and dashed away into the sparkling surf at the mouth of the 
river, 
Taking trout with the fly is always more or less interest- 
ing, but, as a branch of sport, it dwindles greatly on return- 
ing from a successful trip of angling for salmon. Broadway 
is beautiful to those who have never visited Paris; but on 
returning from the Borlevards, the Champs Elysées, and the 
Bois de Boulogne, the beauties which he contemplated with 
admiration before he left New York lack the charm of artist- 
ic finish and the picturesque variety which youth always per- 
ceives, but which age or experience can not discover even 
with the aid of glasses. 
THE WHITE TROUT. 
While the fog is lifting from Schoodice Lake, 
And the white trout are leaping for flies, 
It’s exciting sport these beauties to take, 
Jogging the nerves and feasting the eyes. 
This trout inhabits Schoodic and Grand Lakes in the State 
of Maine. Although it is eminently a lake fish, yet it is found 
in the tributaries and outlets near the lakes named. It is 
similar to the hiring in Scotland in the peculiarity of its 
meat varying from cream to mallow color. The average size 
of the white trout is from three to five pounds’ weight, and 
in outline it 1s between the salmon and the brook trout, with 
the top of head and color of dorsal and caudal fins black and 
lustrous as velvet, the latter crescent-shaped, with jet spots 
