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of an ounce trout, who had evidently " lost its 

 mammy," and so got lost itself ; but after wading 

 some two miles, we had not caught fish enough to 

 cover the bottom of our creels. My friend was 

 nonplussed, and so was I ; but while far in the 

 rear and quite ready to vote fishing a bore, I acci- 

 dentally cast my fly into a cozy looking cove, when, 

 on the instant, a pound trout rose and was cap- 

 tured. The experiment was repeated and re- 

 repeated with the same result, when I called to 

 my mentor, announced my luck, and suggested a 

 change of tactics during the rest of the day. I had 

 struck a spring hole, and in twenty minutes had 

 caught more fish than both of us had taken during 

 the three hours we had been whipping the shal- 

 lows and " riffs " in the center of the stream. We 

 afterward only fished in spring holes and at the 

 mouths of spring brooks, and had no further rea- 

 son to question the veracity of the friends who had 

 lured us thither. 



It is this habit of the trout which often brings 

 disappointment to the novice. He fancies that 

 because a stream is a trout-stream that trout should 

 be found at all seasons in all parts of it. But I 

 would as soon think of looking for a friend in an 

 ice-house in January as for a trout in a cold spring 

 hole in May or early in June. They are then in 

 swift and shallow water, if such water is accessible, 



