none was captured. They are still 
there and the reason is that the lake 
contains more food of many kinds than 
is needed to sustain them. 
On a lake near the writer’s home 
where good-sized minnows are abun- 
dant, there were planted thirty fifteen- 
inch rainbows. The same question was 
put by a friend, “why don’t these fine 
fish bite?” Only one answer could be 
given; they were hatchery fed fish, so 
wait awhile till they get hungry, but 
weeks have gone by and they must be 
very hungry waiting for hatchery food. 
Candidly, the writer has but one an- 
swer: the fish take all the food re- 
quired without effort. 
Wie well-known anglers who visit 
the Catskill region annually have 
been asking, this season, why trout 
don’t respond. Luck has been practi- 
cally nil, not only in the Catskill, but 
in the Eastern and Western states. A 
bass fisherman of undoubted ability 
writes: “Have done nothing so far, why 
don’t the bass and pickeral bite?” We 
now come to several reasons why the 
situation is so, though I cannot solve it 
definitely. First, fish as a rule (unlike 
humans) hardly ever overgorge. Bass 
and pike and also trout abstain from 
feeding for days, sometimes weeks. A 
party of three caught 40 good-sized bass 
from a river teeming with natural food 
and yet not a single bass had a vestige 
of food in its stomach. True it is, the 
writer caught a large trout in whose 
stomach was a teacup full of insects 
and several minnows, but that was in 
May when insects were extremely abun- 
dant. 
It would be foolish, indeed untrue, to 
state that any particular species of fish, 
trout, bass or pike, hardly ever eat. 
They do, I can see from my window 
where two large trout lie still at the 
bed of the pool. Many visits at close 
quarters find them perfectly motionless 
at the bottom in exactly the same situa- 

tion. But when the sun goes down big 
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