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holes, or nests, like the brook trout. Their eggs 

 may be procured in the same manner as that 

 of the trout, and the same rules will apply, in 

 the treatment of the eggs, and the young fish, 

 as with the trout ; or they may ' be suffered to 

 deposit their eggs, and leave them to chance, 

 when you do not wish to rear them in great 

 numbers. 



Their term of incubation is brief, as is the 

 case with most of fishes that deposit their eggs 

 in the spring of the year, not being over two or 

 three weeks. 



BEST METHODS OF ANGLING. 



The best bait, by far, is the live minnow ; he 

 will, however, take a dead one, if played about 

 lively, or when used on a trolling line; he also 

 takes the common angle worm, but it is by no 

 means as tempting as the minnow; he will also 

 rise to the artificial fly, mornings and evenings; 

 a large gaudy salmon fly being the most likely 

 to attract his attention. 



