BROOK-TROUT FISHING 



IN all the annals of fishing the trout has 

 held a distinguished place of honor. 

 In the gentle art of angling, as poet- 

 ically set forth by that prince of the noble 

 pastime, Izaak Walton, the trout is ap- 

 proached with a degree of reverence accorded 

 to no other of the fishes. In all English lit- 

 erature the trout is the subject of comment, 

 simile, and apt illustration. Books have been 

 written about him and poet and painter have 

 combined to do him proper honor. The rea- 

 sons for his prominence in piscatorial lore 

 and legend are many. He is easily the most 

 beautiful of American game - fishes. His 

 home, in the icy and clear-running brooks of 

 the mountain country, or the cool brooks and 

 streams of the northern pine-woods, is ro- 

 mantic and picturesque in the extreme. He 

 is to be found from the forests of Maine on 

 the east to the Rockies, and on to the farther 

 north and north-west 

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