. The American angler's book : embracing the natural history of sporting fish, and the art of taking them : with instructions in fly-fishing, fly-making, and rod-making, and directions for fish-breeding : to which is appended, Dies piscatori, describing noted fishing-places, and the pleasure of solitary fly-fishing : illustrated with eighty engravings on wood. Fishing; Fishes. INLAND TROUT FISHING. The reader, of course, will not confound the fish which forms the sub- ject of the following paper, with the not less beautiful Sea-Trout men- tioned in the previous article. This, whatever its size
. The American angler's book : embracing the natural history of sporting fish, and the art of taking them : with instructions in fly-fishing, fly-making, and rod-making, and directions for fish-breeding : to which is appended, Dies piscatori, describing noted fishing-places, and the pleasure of solitary fly-fishing : illustrated with eighty engravings on wood. Fishing; Fishes. INLAND TROUT FISHING. The reader, of course, will not confound the fish which forms the sub- ject of the following paper, with the not less beautiful Sea-Trout men- tioned in the previous article. This, whatever its size, or whether found in stream or lake, is our familiar old friend Salmo fontinalis. My purpose here is to give the account furnished in the subjoined paper, of one of the localities where its size surpasses that of the Trout of any region yet explored by the fly-fisher. It is from the pen of Elisha J. , M. D., author of " The American Sportsman," editor of •• Youatt on the Dog," and writer of many humorous stories and incidents of sporting life. A PISCATOKIAL EXCURSION IX THE AUTUxMN OF 1864, TO LAKES UMBAGOG AND MOLLYCHUNKEMUNK; WITH A DESCRIPTION OF RAPID RIVER, STATE OF MAINE. Being advised, brother angler, that j^ou were about putting through the press a second edition of your very attractive volume on American angling, I thought it would not be amiss to give you a short sketch " cvrrente calamo" of a piscatorial trip to Oxford county, Maine, during the autumn of 1864. Having been unavoidably detained in the city during the whole of the summer solstice, I found myself, at the close of the hot season, considerably enervated by the long confinement within the narrow radius of hot brick and mortar. Being now at leisure, I naturally-, as is my wont at this season of the year, began to cast about for some retired nook (6.'>4). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readab
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