Where Town and Country Meet 



spend the first half of the year counting 

 spring as its beginning. 



Every country boy knows, for example, 

 something about the spring migration of 

 the suckers; and when you see him start- 

 ing out with his "gigging-pole," or his rod 

 and line, you may be pretty sure that the 

 suckers are beginning to run up some brook 

 that he wots of. So it is also with the 

 brook trout, the gamy and delicious and 

 highly prized salmo fontinalis, as your ex- 

 perienced angler well knows. In April the 

 trout come swarming up the smaller rivers 

 and streams from which they have migrated 

 during the winter. They are coming up to 

 spawn, and to remain until fall, when the 

 downward pilgrimage again begins. The 

 well-informed and skillful angler meets 

 them on their spring migration, when the 

 law allows him to take them. In the fall, 

 however, the season is closed legally, osten- 

 sibly because it is spawning time, though as 

 a matter of fact the spawning of brook trout 

 takes place about midway between the 

 spring and fall migrations. 



The black bass is another instance of a 

 fish that migrates to deeper water late in 

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