Favorite Fish and Fishing 



of trout Is only maintained through the 

 efforts of the federal and state fish com- 

 missions. It is to be hoped that by this 

 means the beautiful brook trout, the love- 

 liest and liveliest fish of all the finny world, 

 may be preserved and spared to us for yet 

 a little while. Its introduction to the pure 

 mountain streams of the Far West has 

 given it a new lease of life, and the time 

 may come when, outside of the game and 

 fish preserves of wealthy clubs, it will be 

 only in its new home that it can be found. 

 Back Log On long winter evenings the angler, sit- 



ting before his cheerful fire, may be medi- 

 tating on the passing of the brook trout — 

 that his angling record for the last season 

 was not so good as the year before, and 

 that next summer it may be still worse. But 

 such disheartening thoughts are quickly dis- 

 pelled as his glance falls on the fly-book 

 and tackle box within his reach. His fly- 

 book is eagerly overhauled and frayed 

 snells and leaders and rusty hooks dis- 

 carded. Some well-worn flies that recall 

 the big trout that gave him sport galore in 

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