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TROUT AND "WATER 
CONDITIONS 
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 165) 
A TROUT can complacently fin him- 
self up and down the watery ave- 
nues of his domains and have plenty 
of time to scrutinize any strange thing 
that has drifted or fallen into said do- 
mains. So this is why you will often find 
a dallying trout in a deep, slow-running 
stream and it is why in a quick-running 
brook you will often encounter one that 
will make a lightning-quick strike as soon 
as your lure drops on the water. In 
shallow water too, trout are inclined to 
strike more quickly than in deep water. 
A reasonable explanation of this is that 
they have but little covering of water for 
hiding when they dart out from under a 
bank or a root and they make a hurried 
intake of their food. 
One of my favorite brooks has a 
stretch of very shallow water above a 
pool. At the sides of this stretch are a 
number of roots that run well under the 
banks, furnishing excellent hiding places 
for trout. Many a time I have pulled a 
trout from this shallow water the instant 
I threw in my lure. In the pool below, 
I have seldom had a quick strike. This 
has been one of the places where I have 
made repeated observations to substan- 
tiate what I first accepted as a a theory. 
In deep water fishing, trout will fre- 
quently be extremely exacting as to the 
position of a lure. Well I remember fish- 
ing in a pool about three feet in depth. 
Several moments after my lure had 
floated down into the pool, I felt a power- 
ful tugging at my line. I had previously 
caught a glimpse of the trout and I knew 
he was an old settler. In his first at- 
tempt at sampling my lure he stripped 
off nearly all the worms. Carefully I re- 
baited and threw in, but there was no 
further response to my efforts. Finally 
the lure circled around an old grape vine 
near the root of a big tree. Then fun 
began. Once I had Mr. Trout coming my 
way as fast as my reel could do its work, 
but when about three yards away he 
gracefully disconnected with the hook 
and dropped back into his pool of free- 
dom. It was some little time before he 
would again give the lure attention, yet 
when he did he was in the same spot as 
when he first “caught on.” Diligently I 
worked to bring him to creel, but with- 
out success. I tried various sizes of 
hooks, worm-baited, and I tried flies of 
various colors. He wouldn’t touch a fly, 
but worms he would gobble down like a 
bird. Yet he wouldn’t touch them unless 
the lure circled about that grape vine! 
Yes, he was exacting to the last letter, 
and there are more just like him in every 
good stream. 
So the angler xvho would be successful 
in catching brook trout should study well 
the water conditions of brooks, and fish 
accordingly. Of course, as in everj’ other 
phase of trout fishing, no hard and fast 
rules can be laid down and followed at 
all times, but in the main the conditions 
which I have explained will prevail wher- 
ever brook trout exist. No, you cannot 
compare brook trout fishing with sea 
and lake and river fishing. And I guess 
every enthusiastic trout angler is glad 
they cannot be compared. 
