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addicted to a fish diet as are the eastern trout; 

 all of which I do not deny; but in my experience 

 as a mere fisherman I have found rainbow taking 

 minnows more often than their eastern relative. 

 On the Peshtigo River in Wisconsin, where the 

 rainbow grow to a large size, I have found live 

 shiner minnows the best bait, as I have pointed 

 out again and again through the sporting press 

 of America. Recently I spent a month on the 

 Pine River of Waushara County, Wisconsin, a 

 natural speckled trout stream into which the 

 rainbow are gradually being introduced. Ten 

 years ago one seldom caught a rainbow in that 

 water; this summer nearly one-half of the fish 

 taken from its upper reaches were rainbow. 

 But let me quote from my Journal: 



Aug. 7th, 1913. Fished down to Bridge with little 

 response, though at the outset I thought the day was 

 going to prove a hummer. ... At hole below the 

 "island," where I have always expected a strike but 

 have always been disappointed, I worked the bait a 

 grasshopper down under an overhanging bank. In- 

 stantly a two-pound rainbow took the offering with a 

 grand rush, bending my newly spliced rod double and 

 breaking it again. Throwing aside the useless tool, I 

 took the line in hand, and hand over hand a la small 

 boy dragged the fighter in. When near my feet the 

 fish disgorged a five-inch speckled trout, which flew well 



