BROOK-TROUT FISHING 



me in strict confidence and I repeat it in 

 the same spirit that long " casts " in trout- 

 fishing were not winners, but that they were 

 good for bass. In the north woods and in 

 the mountains of the west they get trout 

 with a bit of salt pork for bait, and grasshop- 

 pers are very attractive also to the speckled 

 beauties. In fly-fishing there are the devotees 

 of the long " cast " and of the short " cast," 

 but the short " cast " is probably the best 

 method in the small brooks. Real trout- 

 anglers are apt to be " cranks " on the sub- 

 ject, and are especially intolerant of the bait- 

 fishermen. They consider that any way ex- 

 cept fly-fishing for brook-trout is as bad as 

 dynamiting the fish. 



Trout-fishing is a sport that takes you 

 where Druids might worship. In the vaulted 

 depths of the pine-woods there is a sense of 

 immensity coupled with the titanic calm of 

 the great hills beyond. You would not be 

 surprised to see signs of the mastodons in 

 those tremendous forest-arches. And the 

 sound of winds in the tops of the trees seems 

 as far away as the wash of surf on Atlan- 

 tic coasts. It is ghostly and strange in the 



