' ' Fishing for lake trout is about as much sport as dredging for 

 oysters, and boat-fishing for brook trout is merely a refinement of 

 sitting on the corner of the dock and bobbing for eels. In wad- 

 ing a stream all the muscles are called into play and the mind is 

 strung so tightly with anticipation of a rise, new views and sur- 

 prises, care where the feet are planted, and watchfulness that the 

 bushes do not capture the flies, that there is a sense of generalship 

 in steering clear of all dangers and in capturing your game." 

 Fred Mather. 



" The true angler touches no net, but that with which he lands 

 the heavy struggler hung on his tiny hair." O. W. Bethune, D.D. 



"The Western trout takes the fly well, but not so greedily as 

 the Eastern fish. The reason is, that they are from early spring 

 gorged with food in the myriads of young grasshoppers that fall 

 into the streams before getting their wings. The best months for 

 trout fishing in the Rocky Mountains are August and September, 

 although good sport may be had in July and October." Lieut.- 

 Col. R. I. Dodge, U. 8. A. 



"If you eat your kind, I will eat you." Benjamin Franklin. 



" What may appear the right color when looking down upon 

 '?' the fly, may be found quite wrong when viewing it between the 

 eye and the light the way in which fish must, from their position 

 beneath the object, always see it." Hewett Wheatley. 



"Although I am a great advocate for the system of matching 

 your artificial flies with the natural ones upon the water at the 

 time of fishing, still I am of the opinion that an unnecessary 

 number of patterns only confuses the tyro." Francis M. Walbran. 



" Light is light. And by its aid all animated beings Bee, and in 

 its absence all alike are blind. The laws of nature operate equally 

 and invariably both above and below the surface of the water, 

 and, until it is demonstrated to be otherwise, I cannot think trout 

 see in any different manner, or by any different means, than do 

 we. There may be a difference in degree, but I cannot believe 

 in kind." Henry P. Wetts. 



