ys intended in any reference to trout.

Our brother anglers here are, as a rule, keen sportsmen and honest men,
meaning that they are glad whenever they can assist another in securing
the recreation which makes fishermen kin all the world over. My chief
trouble was that I could make no manner of use of a tantalising list of
kindly invitations to cast a fly in Long Island. Then there is another
and smaller island at a greater distance, Martha's Vineyard, beloved of
old whalers, where there are well stocked trout streams; but it goes
quite without saying that all the water near New York City is
preserved. Outside, in New York State, the trout fishing opens on
April 15, and the favourite country is in the Adirondacks, where the
wood-built veranda'd clubhouses are pitched here and there over a vast
tract of woods, beside lakes and streams. To reach the Adirondacks you
have a fifteen hours' journey by rail, and waggon tracks over hilly,
and not macadamised roads, that will account for from two to fifteen
hours more, according to the retreat chosen. You are here quite out of
the world, and for the nearest fishing grounds you may leave New York
by the evening train to-day, and be at work at even-tide to-morrow.

From Boston, the quiet city of studious men and women, who regard their
old town still as the "hub of the universe," there are endless
possibilities, more or less inland. Connecticut, Vermont, and
mountainous New Hampshire, abound in charming minor streams and
picturesque scenery. The delights of this New England fishing and
camping have been faithfully immortalised in that incomparable prose
idyll "I Go a Fishing," by Prime. Maine, however, is the United States
angler's paradise. This involves at least a twenty-four hours' journey
by rail and steamer, if you would reach the famous lake region of that
sporting state. The trout run large, and I have seen the skin of a
handsome 9-lb. fontinalis killed there with the fly. There are
declared to be even bigger fish than this; but 4-lb. and 5-lb. fish are
considered really good specimens. The average is not lower than 2 lb.,
and 3-lb. fish may be taken as "good." The flies used are never
smaller than our sea-trout size, and they are more often larger; but
the best anglers catalogue you as a lubber if you wield anything
heavier than a boy's rod. I have looked over some fly books in active
service, and when some day I find myself in that log-house in the Maine
w