I/O WINTER ANGLING 



CHAPTER X 



TROUT-BREEDING IN WINTER 



THAT grand old angler and good Christian, 

 George Dawson of Albany, has put it on record 

 that "it is not all of fishing to fish." Similarly, I 

 may say, " It is not all of fish to fish." I mean, 

 of course, that there are many interesting points 

 about the fish themselves that become apparent, 

 aside from the actual operation of fishing. It is a 

 poor angler that passes his days by the waterside 

 intent only on filling his basket, and on simply the 

 capture of the fish. To him the best pleasures of 

 the pastime are sealed and unknown. He should 

 not be counted with the true disciples of the 

 sainted Izaak Walton ; nor is he to be considered 

 a true member of the "gentle craft." To such an 

 one fishing is fishing and nothing more. He is 

 like Peter Bell : " A primrose by the river's brim, 

 a yellow primrose was to him, and it was nothing 

 more." But how different with the observant fish 

 lover ! Every denizen of the water is to him an 



