CHAPTER II 



HISTORIES OF THE TROUTS HOW THE ANGLER TAKES 



THEM 



Trout, Brook (Speckled Trout, Mountain Trout, 

 Fontinalis, Speckled Beauty, Spotted Trout, etc.): 

 Caught in the spring and summer in clear streams, 

 lakes, and ponds, on the artificial fly. Favors eddies, 

 riffles, pools, and deep spots under the banks of the 

 stream and near rocks and fallen trees. Feeds on 

 small fish, flies, and worms. Breeds in the autumn. 

 Weighs up to ten pounds in large waters. There is a 

 record of one weighing eleven pounds. This specimen 

 was taken in northwestern Maine. Averages three 

 quarters of a pound to one pound and a half in the 

 streams, and one pound to three pounds in the lakes 

 and ponds. Occurs between latitude 32^ and 55, 

 in the lakes and streams of the Atlantic watershed, 

 near the sources of a few rivers flowing into the 

 Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico, and some of the 

 southern affluents of Hudson Bay, its range being 

 limited by the western foothills of the Alleghanies, 

 extending about three hundred miles from the coast, 

 except about the Great Lakes, in the northern tribu- 

 taries of which it abounds. It also inhabits the head- 

 waters of the Chattahoochee, in the southern spurs of 

 the Georgia Alleghanies and tributaries of the Catawba 

 in North Carolina, and clear waters of the great islands 



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