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waters at my feet. Six or seven fish—I 
lost count—followed in swift succession 
from the same pool, all under the six- 
inch law, and were given their freedom. 
I tossed a fragment of bark, a twig, a 
tiny pebble, a bit of grass into the pool, 
and the school of small trout rose cn- 
massc to inspect the offerings. Such in- 
i cidents were common in all the brook’s 
miles, yet trout of fair or even larger 
size were few and widely scattered. The 
numbers of small trout were legion, oc¬ 
cupying every choice location where 
trout ought to reside. Sometimes I have 
often wondered if these small trout had 
attained maturity, and growth was a 
matter of age rather than of size and 
weight. 1 he brook is not over-fished; 
in fact, fishermen of the village am 
visitors go hack farther in the moun¬ 
tains or beyond the mountains for larger 
fish and full creels, passing up many a 
local stream which is alive with fish of 
all sizes. With small trout in such 
abundance that they are as common as 
minnows it is highly interesting, in a 
biological sense, to find the larger fish 
sd few and scattered. Should the tallies 
be turned, so that the larger fish out¬ 
numbered the smaller, I can readily solve 
the problem by merely stating cannibal¬ 
ism which we know is a characteristic 
of the brook trout. 
And so again to fishing. As the water 
was clear I worked slowly along the 
brook, now skirting the rocky margins, 
now crossing the shallows or"swift cur¬ 
rent, then sliding down over boulders 
half as large as long cabins to drop the 
flv in some likely-looking pool or riffle. 
Trout rose greedily, but always (he small 
ones which were usually shaken off the 
hook. I looked hard for acceptable fish 
and looked in vain. Thinking the large 
fish had gone down to the deep waters 
of the big pools I swung downward, now 
taking the shore and most timeswading 
down the treacherous waters. No paths 
paralleled the brook, the forest was too 
dense with undergrowth, so travel be¬ 
came a thing of hard work and no play. 
But the adventure of it? A part of the 
day’s fishing. 
^ As the sun worked higher in the vault 
of the blue skies, the waters took on a 
silvery lustre, more burnished and trans¬ 
parent. Sunlight played upon small 
stretches, turning the riffles and falls to 
glistening colors, while the mats of moss 
on the rocks shone in deepest green. As 
trout lay head upstream, I put on a tiny 
split shot and let the line run down with 
the current. Using a long line so that 
mv approach did not frighten the fish 
I trusted to chance and worked the lure 
from one shore to another and in every 
hole without strike of consequence. 
[ | Tn a way, I am philosophical. If fish 
refuse to take a plain fly, why not offer 
them something more tempting? Before 
trying the absolute worm, why not a bit 
of worm? Trout are gifted with the 
senses of hearing and sight so acute and 
highly competent that the facts are com¬ 
mon knowledge—but do they seek their 
food by hearing and sight? They are 
fishes, as far as I can see, which take 
their food by smell and taste. Though 
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