CHAPTER IX 

 THE SIGHT AND HEARING OF TROUT 



To JUST what extent the eyesight of trout is developed 

 has indeed been a much mooted question in the past and 

 one that, as yet, can hardly be said to be fully and satis- 

 factorily determined in the minds of all anglers. 



There are, however, many circumstances and condi- 

 tions pertaining to the sight of trout which occur so fre- 

 quently in all kinds of fishable waters that they certainly 

 can be taken as a basis of logical reasoning as to whether 

 or not trout are near-sighted or are keen-sighted, and can 

 distinguish one color from another. 



From time to time for many years anglers have made 

 experiments trying to obtain, if possible, some definite 

 information about the eyesight of trout. No real or sat- 

 isfactory results, however, have been forthcoming as 

 far as I can learn, and, to my mind, never can be from the 

 very nature of the methods employed. 



In these experiments the eyesight of trout has been 

 judged by and compared to the eyesight of the angler, and 

 such conclusions as have been drawn from the data ob- 

 tained must necessarily be erroneous on that account. 



The marked differences existing between the eye of 



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