. Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform] illustrated from nature by the author. Fishing; Fishes; Pêche sportive; Poissons. FISHINfJ. SALMON FISHING. 225. Of all the piscatory sports, this is the first and finest; and although it cannot now be oursuc^ by the American angler except at the expense of some uou inco. '-arable time and ti >"f ., still there is no land on earth in which it exists in such perfection as in this. Time was, when every river eastward of the Capes of the Dela- ware swarmed with this noble fish, but
. Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform] illustrated from nature by the author. Fishing; Fishes; Pêche sportive; Poissons. FISHINfJ. SALMON FISHING. 225. Of all the piscatory sports, this is the first and finest; and although it cannot now be oursuc^ by the American angler except at the expense of some uou inco. '-arable time and ti >"f ., still there is no land on earth in which it exists in such perfection as in this. Time was, when every river eastward of the Capes of the Dela- ware swarmed with this noble fish, but, year after year, like the red Indian, they have passed farther and farther from the sphere of the encroaching white man's boasted civilization, and perhaps will also ere long be lost from the natural world of this eta. The Kennebec is now the western limit of the Salmon's range, and in that bright and limpid river he is yearly waxing less and less frequent In the Penobscot, even to this day, he abounds; but for some singular and inexplicable reason, whether it be from the sawdusty turbidness of its lower waters, or from some especial habit of the fish, he is rarely or never known to take the bait or the fly, within very many miles of the mouth of that grand and impetuous stream. Far up the northern and northwestern branches of the river it is speared constantly by the Penobscot Indians; but the white residents of that wild region, lumbermen for the most part, and sparse agricul- tural settlers, are guiltless of the art of fly-fishingâthe only method, by-the-way, except the use of roe-bait, whereof more anon, by which much success can be expected or obtained. To the sportsman, that great track of grandly-timbered and superb- ly-watered wilderness, which yet lies virgin almost and unbroken, from within a few leagues of the ocean to the great St. Lawrence, and from the Upper Kennebec to the Aroostook and St. John's, is yet well nigh terra incognita. Yet well would it repay th
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