34 THE AMERICAN TROUT. 
nio-lit or two to work themselves clean, and then placed 
in other moss sprinkled with milk. They become strong, 
light colored and lively, and should be threaded on a fine 
hook by passing the point in at tlie head of the worm 
and out half-way down the side ; then in, half up the 
side of another, and forced nearly to the head. Worms, 
if cast as in fly-fishing, are very attractive, and will fre- 
quently kill an immense number offish. There is much 
skill in casting so as not to tear oflf the bait, and yet to 
cover an extent of water 
In rapid streams, whether with bait or fly, always fish 
down stream ; there is less noise, the line is kept taught, 
the fly looks more natural, and unless the wind is strong 
against you, it will be much easier and pleasanter fish- 
ing. Move the bait continually ; keep it in motion 
under all circumstances ; this is the great secret of bait- 
fishing. 
I have also heard of shrimp preserved in whisky 
being used, and think they might answer for fish that 
have just run from the salt water; but as frequent 
experiment with the live shrimp has proved their inferi- 
ority to minnow, I have little faith in them. 
The trout is admitted to be the most beautiful of all our 
fish ; not so large nor powerful as the salmon, he is much 
more numerous, abounding in all the brooks and rivulets 
of our northern States. He lives at our very doors ; in 
the stream that meanders across yon meadow, where the 
haymakers are now busy with their scythes, we have 
taken him in our early days ; down yonder in that wood, 
there is a brook filled with bright, lively little fellows ; 
^nd away over there we know of pools where there are 
