FOREST AND STREAM 
249 
RAINBOW TROUT SEASON IN NORTH 
CAROLINA. 
Linville Falls, N. C., March 23, 1915. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The rainbow trout season in Linville River 
will open as usual May 1. The river is in the 
best condition it has been for several years. 
Several high “tides” last fall washed the mud out 
of it that had been deposited by erosion of fields 
and roads from rains during the summer and 
it is now once more the crystal mountain stream, 
the natural home of the rainbow trout. The 
river has been well stocked from a nurse stream, 
a small tributary, and, the fishing this season 
should be of the best, especially during May and 
early June. The stream is well protected, both 
naturally from its roughness in its deep and pic¬ 
turesque canyon, and from being patrolled for 
fifteen miles, all owned by one man. There is 
no speculation in it, no profit derived from the 
fishing and no hotel proposition connected with 
it. The small fees collected from visitors go 
to pay for protection and stocking. Visiting 
anglers may be taken care of here in several 
boarding houses, but this is not a fashionable 
resort. Attractive as any mountain region in 
America from May till November, it yet enjoys 
all the beauty of the wild. In other words, it 
is not “developed” in the sense of being a com¬ 
mercial resort. Linville Falls station, on the C. 
C. & O. Ry., six miles down the mountain, 1,800 
feet below, is the nearest railway station. 
F. W. BICKNELL. 
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