Where to Get Them 



distributed of any fish. For that reason it will 

 be necessary to class the different species to- 

 gether in two divisions those caught in deep 

 water (mostly by trolling) and those on the sur- 

 face with the fly and worm. Surface fishing is 

 more or less confined to brooks and small streams; 

 deep fishing is often necessary in large rivers, and 

 nearly always in lakes and ponds. 



and P S^rf!ce The an g ler must remember that 

 mountain-brook fishing is not so 

 good after the first month of the season, 

 because, to a certain extent, many brooks 

 dry up; and in shallow water few places are 

 available in which the fish can hide from the 

 continuous assaults of worm and fly. Large trout, 

 if they rise to a fly at all in big lakes do so only 

 early, or very late in the season; and deep-water 

 fishing is best at the end of spring and beginning 

 of summer, when all traces of ice and snow water 

 have disappeared. 



In the large lakes, brook trout, or fontinalis, 

 grow big and gross up to ten pounds weight if 

 they feed on a fish diet. Three pounds is a large 

 weight for surface-feeding fish in shallow waters, 

 but their game qualities make up what they lack 

 in weight. There are waters wherein the brown, 

 rainbow, and even brook trout will live with the 

 bass, but never with pike and mascalonge. 



It is safe to say that the State of Maine stands 

 easily first, as the most productive fishing ground 

 for trout in the United States, both for size, quan- 

 tity, and variety of species. 

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