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persons on first throwing in, will both instantly take 

 double game, as it is called. 



If it is late in May, two. of them may be striped 

 Bass, which we have seen repeatedly taken to- 

 gether ; for it is in May that these fish run in 

 from the sea. At that time they are in such 

 fine condition that there is no reason to regret the 

 chance of taking one occasionally, if it were for 

 nothing else but to give variety to the repast in an- 

 ticipation. After premising that there is never a 

 day in the season of fishing, but more or less trout 

 may be taken at this point — always enough to eat; 

 — still, to give a better idea of the numbeis, though 

 perhaps incurring the charge of dry detail, we would 

 now refer to such days as have been considered 

 fortunate ; and we mention them only as coming 

 within our own observation, and such as every fre- 

 quenter of these waters must also have experi- 

 enced. 



April the twentysecond, two persons took, twen- 

 tyseven pounds principally upon this point : a 

 great part of the time the tide was ebb, and of 

 course favorable, but the wind being north-east, 

 by no means so, which is one of the many proofs 

 of their capriciousness for the want of a better 

 reason, already adverted to. The angler, of all 

 persons, therefore, should never despair. On the 

 ninth of April — the year is of no consequence — 



