10 TROUT LORE 



members of the salmon family are never found 

 in waters of subterranean origin, but we must 

 remember that trout belong to an age antedating 

 that of our common freshwater species, so the 

 underground waters had accomplished their mis- 

 sion with them before the latter put in an 

 appearance. 



Of course many questions impossible of 

 answer arise, dealing as we are with remote 

 ancient history, but enough has been said to indi- 

 cate something of the supposed past of these 

 beautiful fish sufficient, I think, to increase our 

 interest in their pursuit and capture. Pushed 

 into new waters, shut away from others of their 

 kind, they gradually adopted themselves to their 

 new environment, and as century after century 

 rolled by, a change was manifested in form and 

 color. Take, as a striking illustration, the 

 golden trout of California. "Why," some one 

 may ask, "do we not see these changes taking 

 place?" Perhaps we do, but so gradually does 

 Nature work that the life of a man is as nothing. 

 You will remember the word of the Hebrew 

 poet, "With God one day is as a thousand." 



However, trout have not remained where the 

 ice-age left them but through many causes have 

 found new habitats ; the work of distribution still 



