April, 1922 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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clows, heavily overhung by alders, and 
its trout were snakily long and flabby. 
McLean's brook was a lottery — one day 
full of ravenous though uncertainly- 
striking fish, and another day apparently 
wholly empty of fish of any kind. 
Best ancl longest loved of all, however, 
was the Grassy Sprain brook which lay 
some seven miles straight away to the 
northeast and gave perhaps a mile of 
fishing w'ater. \\'hen you had covered 
that you could fish up to the head and 
back again, or you could push on over 
the hill to Troublesome, or strike south 
to McLean’s and home by the third leg 
of the triangle. 
The Grassy Sprain brook gathered out 
of a swampy v/oodlot, among tall clumps 
of royal fern, and came brawling dowm 
a stony field with a curious air of flow- 
ing along the top of a ridge. Then it 
dropped over a tiny fall into a narrow 
wooded valley, wdth gradually flattening 
slopes and lengthening pools, ending in a 
quarter of a mile of very gentle riffles 
alternating wdth almost ciuiet still-waters 
over which the trees met in a high arch. 
Llere the banks were deeply undercut, 
and the large trout lay in hiding or 
dashed maddeningly to cover as you 
crept, ever so stealthily, into sight. But 
here, on one marvelous red-letter after- 
noon, I landed a patriarch weighing a 
pound and a quarter, and carried him 
home over roadways paved from end to 
end with buoyant air, rose-colored and 
fragrant. 
The most haunting of all recollections, 
how'ever, is of an early April day on this 
brook, after a rain. The trout had ap- 
parently all worked up as far as they 
could go toward headwmters, and as I 
came down the stony field every tiny 
riffle seemed to harbor a fish and every 
fish seemed determined to have my hook 
even if he had to come out onto the bank 
to get it. 
The trout were small; the stream w^as 
small ; I was small — a little muddy figure, 
excitedly splashing down an open field 
under a gray sky, with a home-made rod 
and, I think, only coat pockets for either 
bait-box or creel. And yet, it seems to 
me I would rather have that morning’s 
fishing over again than any w-hole season 
in any of the most glorious camps on the 
most wonderful trout river in the entire 
world. 
A NEW ENGLAND BIRD- 
BANDING ASSOCIATION 
T he project to study migrations and 
other matters relating to birds, by 
means of a small metal band bearing a 
serial number, placed on the leg of indi- 
vidual birds, which are trapped and. lib- 
erated in such a way as to avoid injury, 
has recently been taken up by the United 
States Biological Survey. It is meeting 
with enthusiastic support in _ the New 
England States. We learn that in January 
a New England Bird-banding Associa- 
tion was formed to further this w'ork. 
The officers are E. H. Forbush, Presi- 
dent; Laurence B. Fletcher, Secretary 
and Treasurer. Those interested in this 
work may communicate wdth the Asso- 
ciation, Room 940, 50 Congress Street, 
Boston. 
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Ashing waters of proved worth-— 
and thousands of other virgin 
waters waiting for those who push 
a little further afield. Let us help 
you make your 1922 plans — we do 
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Canada with up-to-date and relia- 
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investigations and latest advices 
from best fishing waters, write to 
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General Tourist Agent 
CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY 
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