CHAPTER VII 



LAKE AND STREAM 



Sport on Stream Less Inconstant — Noted Trout 

 Arrived for the Season — Mysteries of the Lake 

 — Big Fish Lie Low — Trolling Minnows — Need- 

 less Strategy — Boats Do Not Alarm — Death to 

 the Unfit — The Deceptive Alexandra — Worm- 

 fishing — Chalk Streams — Other Streams — Sir 

 Walter Scott — ^Worm Tackle — Mr. Cholmondeley 

 Pennell — One Less, One Better — Weather-wise 

 Villagers — Coming of the Rain — Thrush and 

 Blackbird — The Stream in Flood — Out at the 

 Dawn — Aspects of the Stream — Eels and Trout 

 — Fascination of the Nibble — Habits of Stream 



Trout— T J B and the Three 



Great Trout — Back to the Lake — A Mountain 

 Marvel — Critical Musings — The Hospitable 

 Horn. 



Which is preferable, lake or stream ? 

 That is a question which one sometimes 

 hears discussed ; but I have never heard 

 it considered in relation to the real 



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