5O SPRING ANGLING 



CHAPTER III 



BAIT-FISHING FOR TROUT 



As soon as the trout fishing opens, this beautiful 

 game fish will readily take the worm ; indeed, it is 

 not at all uncommon to get a trout when sucker 

 fishing, but they are then not yet in good condi- 

 tion, and take the bait with hesitation, and show 

 no fighting power or resistance. Indeed, so late as 

 the ist of May in 1893 I have found them "logy" 

 and sucker-like in Vermont (Bennington County) ; 

 and many times when I pulled up a trout I could 

 have made an affidavit, before seeing the fish, that 

 it was a sucker from the tameness of its behavior ; 

 indeed, the suckers bit with greater freedom, and 

 caused more exertion of skill to land them with 

 fine tackle than the trout. 



But what a fine basket of fish myself and friend 

 did catch on that same May I, 1893! We drove 

 all night from Greenwich, N.Y., nearly twenty 

 miles, up hill and down, and in a blinding rain- 

 storm. By daylight we were at the brush factory, 



