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THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 



The story runs that our pilgrim fathers, eager to learn if 

 the many streams which they found on this new continent would 

 afford trout fishing such as they had left in Merrie England, 

 soon discovered this brilliant little fellow, and, though he was 

 quite dissimilar to the brown and Loch Leven trout at home, 

 promptly named him brook trout. Although probing scientists 



later proved this fish to be a 

 char and not a trout, the name 

 stuck, and today he is quite 

 generally known as the eastern 

 brook trout. 



But enough of fontinalis, be 

 he ■ trout or char. We started 

 out this April morning for a 

 mess of brook trout and these 

 we will get. Real bona fide 

 trout of our western brooks. 



It is April. On the higher 

 levels little rusty patches of 

 snow still lie, though already, in 

 the broken glades, white tril- 

 liums glisten against the deep 

 moss and the first anemone has 

 pushed up a round, heavy bud 

 full of promise. 



There are no flying bugs 

 about, though many such in the 

 embryo, fat larva, can be found 

 if we but know where to look. 

 We may well expect to find the 

 particular brook decided upon 

 still milky from snow water and 

 clouded by spring freshets. 



Where shall we go? We 

 _ _ want to catch some little trout, 



Along* an Oregon Trout Stream. 



