TROUT FLY-FISHING IN AMERICA 



gregate/* and where the angler of experience always looks 

 to find them in number. 



These large trout are not great surface feeders. At 

 all events, if they are, their feeding must be largely done 

 at night, for it is seldom that they rise to the flies on the 

 surface during the daytime. This is certainly the fact 

 so far as the Brook Trout, the Salvelinus-fontinalis, is 

 concerned; but with the Brown Trout, the Salmo-fario, 

 it is different, for this trout will often rise to the flies on 

 the surface at any time of the day or night. 



When large Brook Trout are persuaded to rise to the 

 angler's fly they do so in a stately and dignified manner, 

 and their very size when they turn to strike makes a swirl 

 of such proportions as to thrill the heart of the most expe- 

 rienced of anglers. 



Large trout are not quick strikers, and in order to 

 hook these fish the angler must use great judgment in not 

 striking too quickly, and yet he must not be a second too 

 late or his opportunity will be lost, because it is seldom 

 that these large trout can be induced to rise the second 

 time the same day. 



Trout that live in "Still Water," such as lakes and 

 ponds and large slow-running streams, do not put up such 

 a brilliant fight when hooked as do trout that are caught 

 in ordinary streams, owing to two important conditions, 

 which are that the water is less aerated and of higher tem- 

 perature than the water of ordinary streams. 



These two conditions alone have a marked tendency 

 to make the large trout somewhat slower and the smaller 



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