TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

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1

3

Prefatory and apologetic...

Angling as a lasting pleasure....

The higher and lower branches of angling...

Preparation, anticipation and recollection

4

5

CHAPTER II.

8

10

Angling and anglers vindicated..

Not all of fishing to fish ...

Love of angling no proof of sanctification..

Unselfish courtesy..

12

13

20

21

Re-stocking salmon waters in the Provinces...

Causes of depletion....

What New York is doing.

Fishing regulations in the Provinces...

22

24
CHAPTER V.

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29

Fish breeding.....

What should be done to replenish American waters.... 32

CHAPTER VI.

35

Hobbies and some of their riders....

Rarity of salmon anglers in the United States.....

Some of the experts of New Brunswick..

38

40

60

Ticket-of-leave from the General.........

Abundance of trout

61

78

The largest fish of the season breaks off...

The weight of some of our fish.

81

112

The angling advantages of preserved waters.

The attractions of forest solitudes...

113

CHAPTER XVI.

116

117

A pleasant morning.

Courtesy and self-sacrifice...

Judge Fullerton as an angler..

The Judge's first salmon.....

Dun trying to reel in a fifty-ton bowlder

120

121

123

CHAPTER XVII.

126

128

129

Difference in the play of fish.

A pleasant disappointment..

The wisdom of judicious commendation....

Instances of mistakes in gaffing

How to treat leaping salmon

The music of the reel-click..

130

131

132

CHAPTER XVIII.

The attractions of fly-fishing

135