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patch, or, better still, a garden or dunghill where 

 they abundantly abide and breed. 



It is a regrettable thing to have writers and sport- 

 ing magazine editors constantly lauding the worm 

 as a trout bait. Such writers are either incom- 

 petent fly-fishermen or they write from hearsay 

 and traditional imagination of abnormal con- 

 ditions. In general use, a w^ell-chosen and properly 

 played fly, either sunk or at the surface, is almost 

 certain at any season, time, or place to attract 

 trout better than worms, except, as previously 

 stated, when fishing brooks for fingerlings. 



