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OREST AND STREAM 
TROUT HABITS, LURES AND THEIR USE 
(continued from page 197) 
Devices sometimes employed to get the 
bait where you want it, or to render it more 
effective, are floating it downstream on a 
chip or leaf, or feeding it to the fish before 
angling for them—an adaptation of salt¬ 
water “chumming.” The same thing is 
sometimes done at night, within the glare 
on the water of a fire built at the water’s 
edge. A very foxy stunt is to drop a fly 
on a patch of floating foam, which collects 
insects* and allow it to rest there till it 
sinks through. 
Other forms of decoying fish are some¬ 
times resorted to when food is badly needed 
in camp, as placing some minnows in a 
large corked bottle, the cork having a small 
hole through it and suspending it in mid¬ 
water. Maggots falling from fly-blown meat 
hung over a fish-hole will likewise attract 
fish. A blind may be made of branches to 
hide behind, in the vicinity of some espe¬ 
cially promising hole; it should be con¬ 
structed the day before. 
Other Trout Habits. 
F URTHER data in reference to the 
habits of trout are ; The principal feed¬ 
ing times are from 5 to 10 o’clock in 
the morning and 5 to 8 at night. After a 
hard rain or in misty weather they are all¬ 
day feeders. The observation that the larg¬ 
est trout are not great surface feeders ap¬ 
plies more particularly to the native trout 
( salvelinus ) than to the brown ( fario ). 
Trout are also more agile in rapids than 
in shallow water or pools, and must be 
struck more quickly. But irrespective of 
this, the large trout strike more deliberately 
than small ones. Southard says they rarely 
rise tp the artificial fly a second time the 
same day. In lakes and ponds all trout are 
largely ground feeders, because they find 
there most of their food. Other interesting 
observations by Mr. Southard* are as fol¬ 
lows : 
Rise most readily to artificial fly when 
they have been and are feeding and almost 
gorged. 
Large “rolling” fish taken only on sunken 
fly. 
Use larger flies in early spring, No. 4—6, 
because sight is poor. 
September (when in open season) one of 
the best times for fly-fishing both in lake 
and stream—just before breeding. 
Spawning grounds are mostly located in 
the headwaters of smaller streams. 
Winter Habitat (November 1 to April 
1) : Spawning season over, in deepest 
water, burrow in mud. Dark coloration. 
Spring Habitat (April 1 to June 15) : 
Shallow, medium depth, along shore, on 
shoals and bars. Subdued coloration. 
Summer Habitat (June 15 to August 15) : 
Medium and deep water, not so deep as 
winter; under surface feeding, most shy. 
Bright coloration. 
Fall Habitat (August 15 to November 
1 ) : Medium and shallow water, lightish 
bottoms. Brilliant coloration. 
I N lakes and fairly still water of streams 
trout stay in or near the shallow water 
they first seek in spring after coming 
out of deep water, till they have finished 
“scouring” themselves on light gravelly 
* “Trout Fly-Fishing in America.” 
bottoms; then they “school,” move to other 
shallow places and by the middle of June 
settle in some good feeding place for the 
summer. 
Modifying the ancient dictum as to using 
small and dark flies in clear water and 
bright weather and lighter and larger flies 
in deep and dark water and cloudy weather 
and for evening, Mr. Southard says dark 
flies get more rises than light in the even¬ 
ing, except it be overcast and very dark, 
when the lighter should be used. He recom¬ 
mends especially here dark flies having sil¬ 
ver bodies, as Silver Doctor, Silver Spot 
and Silver Gnat. 
As a rule, bigger fjies will catch bigger 
trout, though not always, and large fish 
are caught at night on bass—or even salmon 
size flies. Very light colored flies are less 
effective in rapid stream fishing. 
Wet or Dry Fly? 
ONSIDERING all weathers and 
waters, more fish will be caught 
on the wet than on the dry fly. 
Good dry flies are: Alder, Black Gnat, 
Coachman, Olive Dun, Pale Evening Dun, 
Spent Gnat, both male and female; Jennie 
Spinner, Soldier Palmer, ; Hare’s Ear, 
Wickham’s Fancy, Red Spinner, March 
Brown, Silver Sedge, May-fly, Gowdung, 
Cinnamon, Iron Dun. Kerosene oil carried 
in a small, wide-mouthed bottle makes a 
perfectly efficient “floatem” preparation for 
the fly and for the leader and about fifteen 
feet of line mutton tallow is all the “deer- 
fat" necessary. It is understood that the 
dry fly is cast up and across stream and 
allowed to drift with the current and 
cocked, with wings erect and that three or 
four false casts into the air are made be¬ 
fore permitting it to alight each time. 
You are fishing with greater precision in 
using this method if you fish only when 
you see fish rising. This English practice 
of “fishing the rise” obviates covering a 
lot of water where there are no fish, and 
a lot of wear on tackle. But they may be 
rising very sluggish, then you have to “fish 
the water,” which is the prevalent American 
custom. In midsummer the water is low 
and clear and the trout most shy, and de¬ 
spite best efforts of fishing “fine and 
far-off”—finest possible manipulation of fly 
-—it is almost useless to fly fish except at 
early morning and in the evening. 
(to be continued) 
BAIT FISHING FOR TROUT 
(continued from page 203) 
rod, short and some- what stiff, is better 
than a light delicate brook rod. This 
method applies perfectly to the capture of 
such coarse fish as perch, dace, chub, cat¬ 
fish or eels. For pickerel and pike perch, 
the worms used should be larger in size, 
but never two or more worms on a hook, 
and never more than one hook on a leader| 
Two or more baited rods to one angler in 
a boat is sure to fail, for various reasons. 
Fish are wary of unnatural abundance; 
and you, by paying strict attention and 
striking at the right time, with one rig 
only, are sure in the long run to get more 
sport and also more fish. 
Deep river pools — 
N the deep pools of running rivers, 
where brown and speckled trout grow 
big and gross, driving away other fish 
from their lair, the big fellows may often 
