Famous Trout Streams 371 



every cation bears a trout stream fed from the 

 distant snow-fields. 



We have been told that the largest trout in 

 the world come from the deep waters of the 

 lake ; monsters that live deep down in the pseudo 

 crater where little or no light ever reaches; trout 

 habituated to great pressure, as even at a quarter 

 of a mile down the pressure on a fish is enor- 

 mous. We see anglers going out for this game 

 with wire lines on enormous " winches," the lure 

 a shell eight inches long that revolves in the 

 deep abyss many hundred feet down and attracts 

 attention to the real bait, that comes twisting 

 along behind. This tackle will hardly appeal to 

 the true Waltonian, and that it is not an essen- 

 tial is shown by the fact that some anglers 

 known to the writer have made famous catches 

 here with ordinary lures by merely trolling deep. 

 Yet it is doubtless true that the biggest fish 

 come from the deeps. 



On the High Sierras the air is rich and clear. 

 It seems to have been sifted through the blue 

 heavens, purified by silvery clouds, and swept 

 by the needles of a million pines which have 

 given it a tang, a something that fills the blood 

 with new-born energy which, while called in- 

 spiration, is known by many another name. 

 Rarely does an angler find so much to enjoy 

 besides mere fishing. The splendid rows of 

 mountains, the variety of tints and shadows, 



