124 TROUT LORE 



I think I have said enough in the foregoing 

 paragraph to convince you that I am a confirmed 

 fly-fisherman; therefore I presume that you are 

 ready to follow me into the "when and where" 

 with not a little patience. Of course not all 

 trout waters are adapted to the needs of the 

 would-be bait-caster; and by bait-caster I of 

 course mean a caster of artificial lures. First, 

 the water must be both wide and deep; second, 

 the fish must average well above "fingerlings." 

 It would be next to impossible to wield a short 

 casting rod in the circumscribed area of the 

 average trout swim: there would not be room to 

 handle the lure; furthermore, playing the fish 

 from the reel would be out of the question. In 

 the article referred to in the first paragraph, I 

 pointed out that the theater of my first act with 

 short rod and reel was a wide and deep river. 

 Though I did not then name the stream, a num- 

 ber of correspondents guessed it, the Peshtigo 

 River of Wisconsin. Since that experience I 

 have resorted to the casting rod more than once, 

 both for rainbow and brook trout, and I am free 

 to confess that more and more I am coming to 

 delight in the new way. So wherever there is 

 plenty of water, the large fish showing a pre- 

 dilection for live bait, you will find that the short 



