BROOK TROUT 



fly-fishing in heavy rapids I have used a nine-ounce 

 lancewood rod, ten teet long. My favorite weapon tor 

 this work, however, is a split bamboo made by that 

 prince of good fellows and of" amateur rod-makers, Mr. 



Graham H. Harris, chairman of the Chicago School 

 Board. It weighs seven ounces, is a beauty, and has 

 four or five pound trout to its credit. A five-ounce rod 

 will do the work equally well, but may take longer 

 about it. Though I have never handled such large fish 

 on a tool of this size, I have killed one of three and a 



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