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years previously. Some of the "bags" 

 -would almost make a defunct fly fisherman 

 turn in his grave. Mr. Weaver, in 1872, 

 took, during one afternoon and one morning, 

 six trout scaling 30 lbs., and one of the lot 

 nearly 9 lbs., from the Derwent. Looking 

 -over the diary of a Nevr Zealand fisherman 

 for 1877, we find, on various days, nine fish, 

 weight 20 lbs. 4 oz. ; six, weight 10 lbs. ; two, 

 weight 8^ lbs. ; eight, weight 13^ lbs. ; 

 three, weight 14^ lbs., and so on, fish over 

 a pound greatly predominating, and many 

 smaller being returned to the water. The 

 flies used were chiefly the black gnat and 

 March brown, but the green grasshopper 

 proved the most deadly of all to the larger 

 fish. Trout have been estabhshed in about 

 a score of streams in New Zealand alone, 

 and, perhaps, as many more in Tasmania 

 and Australia. What a prospect, then, for 

 the angler of the future ! What, for 

 instance, may be , the size of the trout 

 which, after many years of gluttony in the 

 pools of Gippsland rivers, remote now from 

 iiuman habitations, shall rise confidingly to 



