VII 



A DESCRIPTIVE CHART-PLAN TO SHOW THE 



HAUNTS WHERE TROUT FEED IN A 



RUNNING STREAM 



TROUT fishermen doubtless have often been per- 

 plexed at their non-success after all known efforts 

 have been employed when on previous occasions 

 they have been lucky in the very same water. 

 The elusiveness of trout is very marked that 

 is, wild trout in big water: rivers from four to 

 ten feet deep and two hundred feet wide, more 

 or less. We do not consider brook fishing in a foot 

 or so of water containing trout that average six 

 inches, but rather a river able to sustain large 

 fish of four to six pounds, a river that contains 

 ample fish food and abundance of aquatic insect 



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