Nearly all carried snugly-cased fishing rods, whose summer work was ended. The Chateaugay, the Saranacs, Paul Smith's, Baker's, Martin's, and various other familiar names met our ears. We envied none of them. Our cup of joy, happiness and contentment was full to the brim. There was no room for "envy, hatred and malice," but a feeling of gratitude and thankfulness to the Author of every "good and perfect gift," welled up from our hearts. "Every angler has his own peculiar notion in regard to the best fly; and the difficulty of presenting a perfect catalogue will be very apparent, when it is considered that the me of the fly of one writer bears a different name and description from that of another, and it is more than probable that the name and description of some of the flies in my list may not oe in accordance with the vic and ions of many old and experienced anglers."— "Frk Forester.” "After staying in a village parlor till the family had all retired, I have returned to the woods, and partly with a view to the next day's dinner, spent the hours of midnight fishing from a boat by moonlight, serenaded by owls and foxes, and hearing, from time to time, the croaking note of some unknown bird close at hand." -Henry D. Thoreau. 7. Ferguson, 9. Royal Coachman. II. Professor. 8. Abbey. 10. Seth Green. "He sat down on a lump of granite, and took out his fly-book. It is a sport, he added, as he was selecting the flies, that there is less to be said against than shooting, I imagine. I don't like the idea of shooting birds, especially after I have missed one or two. Birds are such harmless creatures. But the fish is different-the fish is making a murderous snap at an innocent fly, when a little bit of steel cat him in the very act. It serves him right, from view."- William Black. the moral po "Ther uch diversity of opinion about the manner of fishing, wheer up or down the stream; the great majority of anglers, boh in Europe and this country, favor the latter method, and very few the former."-John J. Brown. “Beautiful!' Well you may say so, for what is more beautiful than a well-developed pound trout ?"-Charles W. Stevens. |