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the tide in each, but they never ascend into the purely 

 fresh water. In the salt water they are caught only with 

 the ' Prince Edward's Island Fly,' so called, the body of 

 which is of scarlet with gold tinsel, or of gold tinsel only, 

 with four wings from the feathers of the scarlet ibis — the 

 Curry-Curry of South America. 



"In the estuaries of rivers, where the water is only 

 brackish, they take the Irish lake-fly with gay colours ; the 

 scarlet ibis seems, however, the most attractive in all cases. 



" In the fresh water the trout are quite different ; they 

 are much longer, very brilliantly coloured, with tricolomred 

 fins of black, white, and scarlet, with numerous bright spots 

 over the body. MTien the fish are in good condition these 

 spots are nearly as large as a silver penny. They rarely 

 exceed three pounds in weight, but are a very sporting fish ; 

 they take most of the Irish flies, but the red hackle in all 

 its varieties is their favourite. A brilliant hackle, over a 

 yellow or fiery brown body, kills everywhere all the season 

 through. 



"The sea-trout fishing, in the bays and harbours of 

 Prince Edward's Island, especially in June, when the first 

 fish rush in from the gulf, is really magnificent; they 

 average from three to five pounds each. ***** 



" In the bays and along the coasts of the island they are 

 taken with the scarlet fly, from a boat under easy sail, 

 with a ' mackerel breeze,' and oftentimes a heavy ' groimd 



