306 The Trouts of America 



on the back of the head with a round, heavy 

 stick, then wrap the trout at once in a sheet of 

 waterproof paper and pack it tightly, the back fin 

 up, in fresh grass. Another, of England, believes 

 in covering the fish with tissue paper immediately 

 after capture, then rolling it in a damp cloth and 

 packing it in a box or basket with soft packing. 

 A St. Louis, Missouri, angler wrote to me : " To 

 restore the brilliant coloring of trout after they 

 have been on ice for a number of days, you must 

 place them in strong brine with plenty of cracked 

 ice in it. Let them remain in this bath five to 

 ten minutes, and then wash carefully in the brine 

 until all the adhering slime is removed. After 

 drying they will be fully as brilliant as when first 

 caught." 



To fish a trout stream with success the angler 

 should not only possess a knowledge of the 

 habits, but also an intelligent idea of the scope 

 and acuteness of the senses and intelligence, of 

 the quarry he is seeking. Unfortunately, in our 

 efforts to acquire this knowledge we can only 

 depend upon unsatisfactory observations, and to 

 some extent on analogy, using our own senses as 

 a basis. 



Some authorities state that a trout is a very 



