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stream, no particular place need be selected, 

 though off the points at the edge of the channel, 

 or in the narrowest portions of the streams, are 

 perhaps the best. In the summer and fall the fish 

 are in the lakes or deeper water, when the fishing 

 will be more successful during the late afternoon 

 hours until sundown, and the angler may be 

 guided by the conditions followed in black-bass 

 fly-fishing, as mentioned in a previous chapter. 



A trout fly-rod of six or seven ounces, with the 

 usual trout click reel and corresponding tackle, 

 will subserve a good purpose. When the fish 

 are running in the streams the most useful flies 

 are gray drake, green drake, stone fly, brown 

 hackle, gray hackle, Henshall, and Montreal, of 

 the usual trout patterns, on hooks Nos. 5 to 7. 



For bait-fishing, a light black-bass or trout 

 rod, with multiplying reel, braided silk line of 

 the smallest caliber, a leader of small gut three 

 feet long, and hooks Nos. 3 or 4 tied on gut 

 snells, will answer well. The best and in fact 

 the only bait that can be successfully used is 

 a small minnow, hooked through the lips. The 

 fishing is done from an anchored boat on lakes 

 or the deep pools of streams, either by casting 

 or still-fishing. 



