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hooking a large brown trout when he rises to the fly. 

 Striking is often quite unnecessary, for 

 * they take the fly in a very vicious and 

 emphatic manner. A good many times the brown trout 

 will leap from the water and take the fly on his down- 

 ward flight. Usually the native does not show him- 

 self to any extent unless he misses the fly, when he will 

 sometimes shoot straight up in the air. Of course, not 

 every brown trout, or every speckled trout will con- 

 duct himself in this manner and in strict accordance 

 with the general rules ; the above states merely the gen- 

 eral course of action of the two under normal condi- 

 tions. 



The brown trout should never be planted in a stream 



inhabited by native trout unless the conditions are such 



that the natives are few and small and 



Planting stocking with them does not materially 

 rp improve the situation. The brown is a 



very fast grower and attains a large size, 

 the increase being estimated at about one pound a year. 

 Owing to the piscivorous nature of the brown trout 

 and their larger size, natives and browns do not do well 

 together, the former eventually yielding the stream to 

 the foreigners. Disregard or ignorance of this fact 

 when the brown trout was first introduced into this 

 country is responsible in great part for the prejudice 

 against them. But in streams no longer favorable to 

 fontinalis, and there are many such due to logging oper- 

 ations, pollution, etc., the brown trout, by nature a hard- 

 ier fish than our native charr, will still thrive, and such 

 streams may be made to furnish good sport and a valu- 



