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goes on. A freshet often carries fish over some 

 natural barrier, where, if conditions are favor- 

 able, they flourish. And man is forever intro- 

 ducing* trout into new localities. To-day we are 

 catching two and three species of fish from the 

 same stream; even in some of our best trout 

 streams not only are the eastern brook trout 

 found, but rainbow from the West, and German 

 trout from over the water the last two of course 

 true salmons. So we have the Loch Leven, 

 those bonnie fish of Scotland, here in the United 

 States. Not only have the western trout trav- 

 eled east but the eastern trout have journeyed 

 west; whether or not the result will be a hybrid, 

 some strange new fish, remains to be seen. 



However, as pointed out before, there is not 

 much difference whether we angle for rainbow 

 or speckled trout, the methods and tactics are 

 practically the same. 



There is no doubt but that a cyclone some- 

 times does scoop up fish and deposit them again 

 in adjacent waters where they multiply and re- 

 plenish the water; still it is of a single bird as 

 a transporter of fish that I would speak the 

 common pelican, found from our southern boun- 

 dary to the sub-arctic regions. I will never 

 forget sitting one day by a little lake in the 



