VII 



A DESCRIPTIVE CHART-PLAN TO SHOW THE 



HAUNTS WHERE TROUT FEED IN A 



RUNNING STREAM 



Trout fishermen doubtless have often been per- 

 plexed at their non-success after all known efforts 

 have been employed — ^when on previous occasions 

 they have been lucky in the very same water. 

 The elusiveness of trout is very marked — that 

 is, wild trout — in big water: rivers from four to 

 ten feet deep and two hundred feet wide, more 

 or less. We do not consider brook fishing in a foot 

 or so of water containing trout that average six 

 inches, but rather a river able to sustain large 

 fish of four to six pounds, a river that contains 

 ample fish food and abundance of aquatic insect 



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