THE HAUNTS WHERE TROUT FEED 81 



with a wide sweep the eye should cover the entire 

 surface of the water, even beyond casting dis- 

 tance; at the same time alert to note what insects 

 are on the wing. These are some of the first im- 

 portant duties of the angler on arrival at the 

 stream. The most important duty of all is to ex- 

 amine the aspect of the river, the eddies, run- 

 ways, currents, the speed flow, and particularly 

 the different depths of water. By such knowledge 

 you learn the haunts where trout hide, though 

 you may not see them. The annexed plan is here 

 given to point out the favorite haunts of trout 

 (more particularly brown trout) in a clear run- 

 ning stream with rocky or gravelly bottom. 

 They are the tail of a stream — that is, the end 

 of a little rapid, or swifter-running portion of the 

 current, as from top D to ^ in the accompanying 

 diagram; the junction of little rapids formed by 

 water passing round an obstruction in the midst 

 of the general current, as B; and such tracks as 

 C, where a chain of bubbles or little floating ob- 

 jects indicates the course of the principal cur- 

 rent — which, of course, is chiefly dependent upon 

 various deflections of the water, by projecting 

 banks, rocks, deep water passing swiftly along, 

 and shoals, and may often be guessed at, when 



