TROUT FLY-FISHING IN AMERICA 



CHAPTER I 

 TROUT FOUND IN AMERICAN WATERS 



The greatest fly-fishing trout waters in the world are 

 undoubtedly found in North America, and while in cer- 

 tain sections the trout streams have become sadly de- 

 pleted, owing to changed conditions created by what some 

 writers are pleased to term advancing civilization, there 

 still remain many well-stocked fishable waters which will 

 afford pleasure for years to come for all followers of the 

 gentle art of angling. 



The streams of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York 

 and the New England States, with the exception of Maine, 

 have suffered most so far as the native Brook Trout is con- 

 cerned. And it is greatly to be regretted that the changed 

 conditions are such in most of the depleted trout streams 

 that restocking of them, except with the Brown Trout, 

 amounts to little and in the large majority of streams to 

 nothing at all. 



The depletion and, in many cases, the complete ex- 

 termination of the Brook Trout are really due to a number 

 of causes, such as the cutting away of the trees, bushes 

 and foliage along the banks of both large and small 



