Bottom Fishing for Brook Trout 



poor results, it is best to move to other 

 quarters. They usually lie fifteen feet from 

 shore, unless in the middle there are shal- 

 lows with sunken logs or roots of trees; 

 here they get food of all kinds of insects. 

 In such a place, when one is caught others 

 will usually follow. On very warm days 

 they will seek the deeper, cooler water, 

 leaving it for the shallows when the sun 

 goes down, when they rise to the fly. It is 

 little or no use fishing very early in the 

 morning; they are more likely to bite after 

 the sun is up till early morn; then again 

 just before sundown to dark is by far the 

 best time of the day. This is likewise true 

 of most fish, either game or coarse. Ex- 

 actly the same conditions apply to deep 

 pools of running rivers, where the larger 

 trout hide; brown trout grow big and 

 gross in such deep places. There they 

 make their lair, driving all from the place 

 but the larger fish; here they are often 

 seduced by a worm if properly played. The 

 best way to do it is to fish for them by 



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