BROWN AND RAINBOW TROUT 33 



flies such as the Beaverkill, March brown, etc. A land- 

 ing net is always a necessary and important factor on 

 a brown trout water. 



There seems to be a popular impression that the 

 brown trout is essentially and by preference an inhabi- 

 tant of slow, sluggish water. While it 

 The Brownie j s true ^ at t ] ie i arger specimens are 



a Fast-water , L , . , , , 



p. , more apt to be found in the pools and 



deeper portions of the stream, coming to 

 the shallows to feed at night even as the native trout 

 it is still a fact that average fish, from a half-pound 

 up to two pounds and a half, are most often found in 

 the most broken, swift, and rocky water which the 

 stream affords. 



A peculiar fact, and one well worth noting, is that 

 in such a reach of white water, the brown trout is very 



apt to lie on the upstream side of a bould- 



^ J^??** 03 * er rather than in the lee below it, as 



TJ. . ** would be generally true of the native 



trout. The discovery of this fact, very 

 seldom true of the native trout, has been worth many 

 good brown trout to the writer. The flies should be 

 worked cross-current from three to six inches above and 

 along the line where the water lips the boulder. 



The known presence of large trout in the stream 

 lends an interest to a day's fly-fishing quite unknown 



when the angler is whipping a stream 

 An f rom w hich nothing over a half-pound 



^ Iter . e 1 f. t 1 1 ^ g is liable to be taken. A stream inhabited 

 Possibility. , 



by brown trout has always this interest- 

 ing possibility, while, unfortunately, the same cannot be 



