50 SPRING ANGLING 



CHAPTER III 

 BAIT-FISHING FOR TROUT 



As soon as the trout fishing opens, this beautiful 

 game fish will readily take the worm ; indeed, it is 

 not at all uncommon to get a trout when sucker 

 fishing, but they are then not yet in good condi- 

 tion, and take the bait with hesitation, and show 

 no fighting power or resistance. Indeed, so late as 

 the 1st of May in 1893 I have found them "logy" 

 and sucker-like in Vermont (Bennington County) ; 

 and many times when I pulled up a trout I could 

 have made an affidavit, before seeing the fish, that 

 it was a sucker from the tameness of its behavior ; 

 indeed, the suckers bit with greater freedom, and 

 caused more exertion of skill to land them with 

 fine tackle than the trout. 



But what a fine basket of fish myself and friend 

 did catch on that same May i, 1893 ! We drove 

 all night from Greenwich, N.Y., nearly twenty 

 miles, up hill and down, and in a blinding rain- 

 storm. By daylight we were at the brush factory, 



