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week or ten days the pool will be stocked with as great a 

 number as you have taken. ^ By the first of August most of 

 the Trout in the rivers of the Adirondack regions collect at 

 such places and remain until spawning time. 



WALT. I would suppose from the way in which you speak 

 of the Trout of Hamilton County, that they were much larger 

 than the average of this morning's catch are they the same 

 species ? 



NES. There is no specific difference, although the average 

 size is larger and the tints much darker : so is their flesh, but 

 that is no criterion of excellence or condition in the waters in 

 this part of the country ; they do not compare in flavor or 

 delicacy with those we have just eaten. Anglers who are 

 fond of killing great quantities of Trout should go to Hamil- 

 ton and Franklin Counties, that they may get .a complete 

 surfeit of fish-catching, which in all cases is not strictly 

 angling. It is a great country for cockney fishermen, who 

 are fond of telling a good story when they get home, though 

 their success generally depends more on their guides than 

 any skill of their own. I once knew a couple of verdant 

 fishermen whom Old Sturgis had taken to Louie Lake, take 

 forty weight out of a pool not larger than the floor of your 

 parlor. For my part, I would rather fish clear lively water 

 like this, with strong rifts and occasionally a still pool ; with 

 its banks sometimes overhung with laurel and alders; and 

 then a stretch of clean gravelly beach, for here the angler has 

 all kinds of practice ; the long light cast for the still pool, or 

 dapping his droppers across the rift as he brings them home, 

 or chucking his flies under the bushes with the backhanded 

 cast, and added to this is the greater sport of killing a fish in 

 rapid w,ater. 



NOR. Brook Trout are also taken by trolling, are they 

 not? 



