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on it :— " Taken by J. E. Oady, of Sault Ste. Marie, July 30th 

 1858. Weight six and a quarter pounds, length twenty-four 

 inches, circumference thirteen inches ; at the same time took 

 seven Trout from the same pool -weighing thirty-one and a 

 quarter pounds; taken in Batchewaunaung Eiver, Canada 

 West." This may appear improbable, but the gentleman 

 who presented it, and the captor, are both truthful men. 



I have lately been shown a letter which stated that a party 

 of three anglers went last summer from Chicago by rail and 

 boat, to the town of Green Bay, and there packed their lug- 

 gage on mules and travelled a distance of forty miles to a 

 stream not over twenty feet wide, within twelve miles of 

 Lake Superior. They fished two pools where there was 

 neither tree nor bush to interfere with their fly-cast, and 

 during their stay of ten days, each of them killed from fifty 

 to a hundred pounds of Trout per day ; the fish weighing 

 from two to four pounds each. In the state of Maine, Lake 

 Umbagog and Moosehead Lake have great reputation. The 

 tributaries of the St. John and Mirimichi have many and 

 large Trout ; and from all accounts they fairly swarm in Lake 

 Nipissiguit, at the head of the river of that name, in the 

 British Province of New Brunswick. 



Mr. B., an angler of this city, a few years ago, brought home 

 from Maine, where he had been on a fishing excursion, the 

 skin of a Trout, which he has since had stuffed ; the weight 

 of the fish exceeded eight pounds. 



The following was clipped from the "Saturday Evening 

 Post" last summer, and handed to me by a friend : — 



" Enormous Trout. — Mr. George S. Page, of the firm of 

 George S. Page & Brother, of this city, has shown us a basket 

 of Trout, caught — he says it does not matter where, and he 

 would rather not disclose the precise locality — but which are 

 by far the largest of their kind we have ever seen. In the 

 basket before us the heaviest fish weighs eight pounds and 



