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First of all, these men are generally after fish, 

 thus seek to present any legitimate bait that 

 is wanted, and consequently are unalterably 

 wedded to no one style of lure; though often 

 preferring some particular method provided that 

 it is successful under the prevailing conditions. 

 (It is coming to be true of more and more 

 anglers that no other method will interest them 

 for a minute when dry-fly fishing is available. 

 A friend tells me that he contemplates putting 

 in considerable time "scouting along the brook 

 armed with a pair of field-glasses," during the 

 next season's campaign.) 



At the Beginning of the Open Season. A prime 

 factor in the appeal that trouting makes to the 

 angler is that the quarry, whose name is a per- 

 fect synonym for gameness, is the wariest fish 

 that swims. In early April until the young 

 maple leaves are half out, as Nessmuk says 

 natural bait will be found more successful than 

 the artificial fly. (The expression "live bait" is 

 restricted to bait-fish by most anglers.) Trout 

 are then lying quietly along shore, at medium 

 depth, and avoid the swift water. The best 

 way to take them is with well-cleaned angle- 

 worms or with white grubs, the latter being 

 Nessmuk's preference. From toward the latter 

 part of May "apple-blossom time" till pretty 

 well along in July, and sometimes even right 

 up to the beginning of the close season, is the 



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