| TROUT - The fisherman who catches fish will, if | | | | In June and July the salmon is in deeper water |
| he is on a trout brook, pay as much attention to | | | | and farther off shore - use a little lead. In August |
| the unlikely looking places, as he will to the inviting | | | | he is down deep and you are lucky indeed if you |
| pools, on the theory that any fool has enough | | | | get one a month in surface trolling. Instead of this |
| sense to fish in water that looks good, whereas | | | | anchor in 50, 75, or 100 feet of water and plug |
| he would pass by that uninviting little hole as a | | | | deep for him with a hardy, live bait, which the |
| waste of time. But the uninviting little holes are | | | | water pressure won't kill. Have a long anchor line |
| the ones that often yield the catch, especially in | | | | and the gentle wind will give you considerable |
| any brook which is commonly termed "fished out." | | | | fishing latitude. |
| Don't slur over that part of a brook which winds | | | | In September go back to trolling and keep off |
| through the meadow, and whose banks are bare | | | | shore in 10 or 15 feet of water; also don't forget |
| of shade - the other fellow didn't stop there. | | | | to troll back and forth across the brook mouths, |
| When you are on a mountain brook don't take | | | | because now the salmon is pluming himself for his |
| anybody's word for it that there are no trout | | | | spawning tour up stream again and is following the |
| above the falls - find out for yourself. They may | | | | shore line until he finds the brook. |
| not have run the rapids going up, that's true, but | | | | BLACK BASS - Troll for them just after the ice |
| a wood duck or a snipe might have carried some | | | | moves in the coves or in the vicinity of log |
| fish spawn above the falls on his feet. | | | | booms, which bring them wood worms and other |
| In lake fishing, it is more of "an open field and no | | | | feed. Early in June, you will find them getting |
| favor," and yet the old rule of "persistence and | | | | ready to go to housekeeping in the rocky bottom |
| common sense" wins out in the long run against | | | | shallows along the shore, and now is the time for |
| "faint heart and poor judgment." | | | | the fly. Don't neglect the sandy coves either, |
| SALMON - After the ice goes out troll back and | | | | because year after year the same bass spawn |
| forth off the mouths of the brooks which feed | | | | there. Often they are big fellows and much lighter |
| the lake, because there this lordly fish will be | | | | in color than their rock bottom brethren. The |
| feeding on the tinker smelts and other small fry, | | | | larger bass along all shores make their spawning |
| which are going and coming up and down the | | | | beds in deeper water and the smaller ones |
| brooks on their spawning tours. | | | | farther in shore. Cast accordingly. |