TROUT FLY-FISHING IN AMERICA 



to enable the angler during the fishing season to draw, 

 almost anywhere, proper deductions from the coloration 

 as to where trout are likely to be found. 



The Winter Season Habitat: 



The winter season habitat, as a rule, is in the very 

 deepest water of both lakes and streams where the bottom 

 is dark, soft and muddy. Here it is that trout, found in 

 fresh water, hibernate during the greater portion of the 

 closed and cold season. They burrow in the soft muddy 

 bottom to a greater or less extent and remain there for a 

 considerable length of time. While this period lasts trout 

 are not actually torpid, as some animals become during 

 the cold months, but they are in seclusion or close quar- 

 ters and eat but little food. 



It is these conditions, lasting as they do for several 

 months, which produce the dark and poor coloration and 

 render the pigment cells inactive and slow to resume their 

 normal functions when a change in the season takes place. 



The Spring Season Habitat: 



The spring season habitat is in shallow and medium 

 depth of water alongshore and on shoals and bars. It is 

 in the early spring after the ice goes out of the streams 

 and lakes and the sun begins to warm up the water that 

 trout leave their winter quarters, move about and seek the 

 shallow and warmest places. 



The angler should remember that at no other period of 



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