33 8 The Trouts of America 



a half-dozen casts for this purpose, if there is 

 a rift or rapid before him, he will cast about 

 forty feet of line (a longer one is seldom neces- 

 sary), being careful to place the flies on the lip 

 of every little eddy caused by immersed stones, 

 or larger ones made by protruding rocks not 

 forgetting that when "on the feed" trout are 

 found in all portions of a rapid, wherever five 

 or six inches of water comes tumbling down ; 

 hence fish every part of the boiling current. If 

 a fish is hooked, it will be without warning, 

 for the rise is not apt to be seen in the rough 

 water; the first intimation of the presence 

 of the trout will be the eager "pluck" of the 

 fly, which on your part must be immediately 

 followed by a turn of the wrist from left to 

 right, a movement known as " the strike " in 

 angling parlance. When a trout is fastened in 

 rapid water he should be led, if possible, into a 

 quiet reach and there killed, but if no still 

 water is at hand, the fish should be held hard 

 and killed quickly. He must not be allowed to 

 cavort at will where submerged stones and rocks, 

 some of them, perhaps, with sharp edges, line 

 the bottom of the stream. 



Descending the stream, the angler sometimes 



