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master. Usually the pool is surrounded with 

 brush and trees, though sometimes it is open. If 

 the first conditions mentioned maintain, you will 

 be compelled to clear away a place from which 

 to cast, if you use flies, sometimes even with bait ; 

 if the latter be true, then you will just have to 

 forget all your dignity and worm your way up 

 on your stomach. Cast from a distance and keep 

 cool. Remember, unless much fished, a spring 

 will produce some record trout. 



I have never had an opportunity of experi- 

 menting with such fish after nightfall, but those 

 who have inform me that the method is uni- 

 formly successful, the proper way being to take 

 a boat or raft and float out upon the spring 

 surface and "still fish." I am acquainted with 

 but two springs large enough for the practise, 

 and though I have never indulged in the sport 

 I should think that a large basket would be the 

 result. However, it has never appealed to me. 



In these pages I have quite often mentioned 

 the fact that trout are sure to be found in the 

 springs that everywhere bubble up along the 

 course of trout streams; especially is this true 

 late in July and August, when the warming water 

 drives the lovers of a low temperature to the 

 only place they can find it. More than once I 



