26 THe Determined Angler 



habitat just as its colors suited the stones and grasses 

 and earthy materials of its native domain. 



In weight, the brook trout ranges up to ten pounds 

 in large waters. There is a record of one weighing 

 eleven pounds. This specimen was taken in North- 

 western Maine. The species averages threequarters 

 of a pound to one pound and a half in the streams, and 

 one pound to three pounds in the lakes and ponds. 

 It 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 tributaries of which it 

 abounds. It also inhabits the headwaters 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 of the 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence Anticosti, Cape Breton, Prince 

 Edward, and Newfoundland; and abounds in New 

 York, Michigan, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maine, 

 Long Island, Canada, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, 

 and Massachusetts. 



My favorite rod for stream trout fishing is a cork- 

 handled, all-lance wood rod of three or four ounces in 

 weight and eight feet in length, or a rod of similar 

 length weighing four or five ounces and made of split 

 bamboo the best split bamboo of the best workman- 

 ship. "The cheap, so-called split bamboo of the dry- 

 goods store bargain (?) counter, retailed for a price 

 that would not pay for the mere wrapping of the 

 correct article, is a flimsy, decorative thing, and would 



