THE BROOK TROUT 



"Here where the willowy thickets wave 

 Their drooping tassels beneath the wave, 

 Their lies a deep and darkened pool 

 Whose waters are crystal-clear and cool ; 

 It is fed by many a gurgling fount 

 That trickles from upland pasture and mount, 

 And where the tree-shadows fall dense and dim, 

 The glittering trout securely swim." 



Brook Trout. 



(~\F all the strictly fresh water fishes 

 " the brook trout or speckled trout 

 of the streams throughout a great 

 portion of the northern states, is by 

 a majority of anglers regarded as the 

 prince of game fish. It is the com- 

 bination of rare beauty of form and 

 color, game quality of the first order 

 when hooked, and delicious flavor 

 when served at table, that gives this 

 fish appropriately termed "the 

 salmon of the fountain"- - its place at 



