178 AMERICAN GAME. 
sister cities on the seaboard with this high-priced and 
favorite dainty. It is singular that in the United States, 
where so much attention is given to every other‘form of 
industry, every other source of national wealth, so little 
has been paid to that very valuable resource, the sea and 
' river fisheries. 
But now to turn from the fish to the fishing. This 
sport is attainable on all salmon rivers above tide-water, 
or at about the meeting of the fresh and salt, by the 
sportsman, during the whole of the month of July and 
of August, and on some waters in the earlier part of Sep- 
tember. There are but two ways of taking the salmon 
with the hook usually practiced by sporting fishermen, 
and one of these even rarely as compared with the other 
—the best, most scientific, most orthodox, and most suc- 
cessful, is casting with the artificial fly; the second, 
which will often kill good fish when the water is too 
foul, after heavy rains or freshets, to allow their rising’ to 
the fly, and at the meeting of the salt and fresh, is spin- 
ning or trolling with the minnow, the young trout in its 
parr state, the smelt, or the sand launce, occasionally in~ 
deep, still pools, the salmon will take a hook heavily 
shotted, and baited with two large dew-worms; and 
always and infallibly it will greedily seize one baited 
with its own roe potted and preserved with salt. 
The former of these methods is, however, slow, uncer- 
tain, tedious, and inferior both as to sport and success to 
any of the rest. The latter is so deadly and unerring 
