to overcome the varied obstacles en- 
countered at almost every turn, it is 
after all, in a small way, a delightful 
experience. Even the best of moun- 
tain brooks with plenty of water can- 
not maintain fish over the average of 
eight inches—with a few perhaps up 
to twelve, as the limited food supply 
stunts fish growth. It has been proved 
that sometimes three year old trout 
weigh less than half a pound, which, 
had they been placed in wide, open 
streams containing ample food supply, 
would in the same period weigh over 
three pounds, and that is the reason 
why I have advocated that mountain 
brooks should not be fished, but left 
alone entirely for breeding purposes. 
We now come to the trout of the 
meadow brooks, running through 
valleys of wild or cultivated land, 
rippling along at a good pace some- 
times deep and narrow, at other times 
wide and shallow. The former may 
be weedy, with grasses, cress, and 
other aquatic vegetation. Sometimes 
the sides are lined with willow and 
elderberry trees that thrive best in 
damp situations under the roots of 
which trout find good lurking places to 
hide. In fishing such places one has 
quite. as many obstacles to overcome 
as when fishing a mountain brook, 
only they are of a different kind, and 
personally I still prefer to use the fly 
and the same light, delicate outfit, 
though the fish may at times attain a 
much larger size; indeed they will 
often average ten ‘to twelve inches be- 
cause of a much more abundant 
variety of food. In the summer the 
water is a sort of trap for number- 
less grasshoppers, crickets, cater- 
pillars, winged and creeping insects 
living in the grassy meadows. In 
addition, the water itself is in places 
choked with weeds to which cling a 
good supply of shrimps, snails, beetles 
and other aquatic fish food. 
In fishing such water, a personal 
knowledge of the best places to fish is 
of great service, though not nearly so 
much so as in the case of the mountain 
brook. You may cast by chance, any- 
where and fish up against the water- 
flow in open spaces anywhere to get 
rises in most unlikely spots that will 
contain fish surprisingly large from so 
small a brook. I fear the average 
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work and more effective, but if he 
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the method I suggested for mountain 
brooks he will soon find a difference 
largely in favor of it, both as to ease 
in getting to difficult places and more 
success in netting greater numbers of 
fish. 
After the middle of June the angler 
will find it a pleasing change to use 
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