5U FOOD. 



Spread their wings and fly away. On this larvse, before it 

 it has assumed the fly-state, the Trout feed ; and these eggs 

 of water flies, together with minute insects and worms are 

 the special food of the very young Trout. 



Fish of any kind are a very good food for Trout. If they 

 are small they may be put into the water whole, the Trout 

 will take them all the better if they are alive. Any coarse 

 fish which can be obtained cheaply and in sufiicient quan- 

 tities may be chopped up fine and used as food. Curd also 

 may be fed to adult Trout as well as to the young, and 

 they will thrive upon it. Sometimes maggots are used for 

 food. A maggot factory is very simple, but also very 

 nasty. Meat can be kept in an open box until it is nothing 

 but a mass of maggots, or a piece of meat can be hung over 

 the pond and as the maggots form they will drop into the 

 water. The maggots certainly do not contain any more 

 nutriment than the meat, and the bad smell attending the 

 operations is argument enough against it. It is just as 

 easy to have everything clean and nice, and the fish cer- 

 tainly will be DO worse for it. As we said before, they 

 will not eat carrion unless pressed by hunger. They will 

 eat a live Trout, but we have never known an instance of 

 their eating, or even touching a dead one. If any way 

 could be devised of raising flies, or shrimp, or various kinds 

 of insects (their natural food) in sufficient quantities and at 

 little expense, this would be the best of all. A change of 

 food would also do them good, but we find that they will not 

 readil} change their food. This bears upon the question whe- 

 ther Trout will take fiies out of season. It has long been a 

 matter of dispute among anglers, whether Trout would 

 take only particular flies at particular seasons of the year, 

 or whether they would take any good-looking fly at any 

 time. My experience is that when one kind of fly is thick 

 upon the water the Trout will take no other. When there 

 are very few flies and food is scarse they will take almost 



