APRIL. 



TROUT FISHING IN MOUNTAIN 



STREAMS. 



Englishmen are reproached for talking too much of the weather ; 

 but anglers talk, think and dream of it ; for all their prosperity 

 turns upon the clouds, the wind and the rain. They hate the 

 dry east winds of March, not because of their bronchi, but 

 because of the Trout which will not face them, but sulk in the 

 deeper pools while the wind blows keen and cold. At this season 

 of the year, every man with a ten foot rod, a fly book, and a 

 week's leisure, having access to a trout stream and possessing 

 the soul of an angler, is thinking a great deal more of the 

 March-brown and the yellow Trout that loves the March-brown, 

 than of anything else in heaven or on earth. In the 

 streams that run among mountains, the first gleams of warmth 

 from the sun, and the first soft westerly wind, bring upon the 

 water the gnats, midges, stone flies and other small insects that 

 in early spring tempt the Trout, from their deeper holds beneath 

 rocks and among the root of alder and willow, into the running 

 streams. Then it is time to put the rod together and sally forth. 



It is not given to every man to choose his day. Were it so, a 

 not too brilliant sky, a soft, warm wind, and a certain fulness of 



