354 TROUT AND ANGLING. 



There is another sandy point, and the only one 

 in the bay, named Poponessett, previously alluded 

 to, which forms one side of the channel called 

 " Sampson's Narrows," not less famous for the 

 size and quality of the trout than Waquoit, though 

 not so remarkable for numbers. A basket of 

 twenty pounds capacity is often filled in this spot, 

 at one tide, and it is worthy of notice that, prob- 

 ably on account of the action of the current upon 

 the various sand-bars, the flood is decidedly best 

 upon this of which we are speaking, while in the 

 other bay the ebb tide is preferable. If we should 

 be called upon to give a preference to the trout of 

 any particular place over all the others which we 

 have seen, the decision would be in favor of those 

 of Sampson's Narrows, as possessing all the fine 

 qualities heretofore enumerated in the sea-trout, 

 with compactness of form and richness of flavor in 

 a more remarkable degree. 



With a view to make further discoveries of the 

 resort of fish, we have followed the shore of one 

 of these bays, so far as the very outlet to the sea. 

 No addition, however, was made to the stock of 

 knowledge already possessed. The only trout 

 which was taken at this outlet, confirms the fact 

 often noticed in other places, that the nearer they 

 are taken to the sea, and the Salter the water, the 

 more they possess the greenish color peculiar to 



