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FOREST AND STREAM 
June, 1921 
very good fishing, and gradually, on ac- 
count of its nearness, monopolized about 
all the time I had to devote to the sport. 
It was not, however, a typical trout 
stream. Its upper part, where it was 
hemmed in by the hills and had a rocky 
channel and rapid fall, furnished the 
best fishing waters, but the pools were 
so small that one could not expect to 
catch other than small-sized trout; and 
lower down, where it became larger and 
the pools d'eeper by the accession of sev- 
eral mountain streams, it flowed so 
languidly through rich meadow lands, 
having long reaches of still dead water, 
that only at long intervals where it 
dashed along the base of some wooded 
hill, did it form pools properly condi- 
tioned for trout. Some of these pools 
had a great fascination for me as they 
were supposed to be the homes of big 
trout. 
Except where it made detours through 
the meadows, the stream was paralleled 
a long distance by a country road, along 
which my friend and I would drive and 
fish the pools, one by one, as we came 
to them. Thus we would travel several 
miles up and down the stream during a 
day’s fishing; and while neither ever be- 
came an expert fisherman, we learned 
the ways of the trout, and had consid- 
erable success with the live minnow 
which we used altogether for bait. 
Driving along the road; and fishing 
this stream in the budding time of 
spring, when the mountains had lost their 
mid-winter aspect and 1 a softer and 
warmer light rested upon them, and 
when the meadows were sprinkled with 
violets, bluets and dandelions, and the 
birds were singing all about me, was the 
most delightful of all my fishing experi- 
ences. 
You admire a maple in summer for 
its symmetry and wealth of foliage, but 
the budding tree in the spring, with all < 
its tiny branches reaching up to the sun 
like so many finger tips to be warmed, 
and the air about it vibrant with the 
hum of insects, excites far deeper emo- 
tions. It is this reawakening — the gen- 
eral stir of new life — the reanimation of 
a withered 1 and lifeless world — that 
makes spring the most delightful of all 
the seasons to the fisherman. 
Then out into its warmth and bright- 
ness and amid its multitudinous stir of 
life I would go in quest of my big trout, 
no moment being so full of interest and 
excitement as when I made my first cast 
of the season. Then hope was enthroned 
in my heart and expectancy ran out with 
the line. Perhaps this was the oppor- 
tune time for my long patience to be re- 
warded with a strike from some big 
trout! But cast after cast would be 
made, pool after pool would be fished and 
one day would' fade into another, till at 
the end of a season, it made no difference 
how successful otherwise it may have 
been, there would be a sense of disap- 
pointment that the big trout was as 
much a myth as ever. 
Going one day with a companion fur- 
ther down stream than I had ever been 
before, I came upon a pool formed just 
where the stream, after looping its way 
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