110 FISHER^LVN'S LURES 



relations with trout in English rivers, and could 

 do so in American waters if the States had energy 

 in favor of the people's welfare. Much can be said 

 for and against the methods pursued by State 

 hatcheries, but here is a fine opportunity to earn 

 the gratitude of a multitude of Eastern fly-fisher- 

 men by planting the grayling in our Eastern trout 

 streams. The season of breeding for this gamy 

 fish would make it possible for anglers to open 

 a grayling season for fly-fishing in August, to 

 continue till the rivers are frozen — about January. 

 Grayling are a good table fish. Though they never 

 attain great size, they are as game as any fish 

 that swims. 



How very different from the grayling, by con- 

 trast, is the bold black bass ! Uglj^ in shape and 

 color, and not particularly fine as a table fish, yet 

 what a fighter he is ! Look at his mouth and eye 

 when freshly caught, what a bulldog mug he owns ! 

 When we think of our speckled beauties as a com- 

 parison, we feel the two should not be allowed to 

 lie alongside in our fern-lined creel. The bass is 

 quite as ugly as a bluefish, and of about the same 

 temperament. Yet what a wide circle of enthusiasts 

 he has, popular all over the continent, North, South, 

 East, or West. But the "simon-pure" method 



