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Identifier: outing55newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
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is inactive, sluggish,nearly, if not quite, as good to look at and a bottom feeder. They do not go into retirement to suchan extent as do the bassbut, nevertheless, are farfrom active. The brooktrout feed more or less,rather less than more,during the winter, andsometimes ice fishermen,trap-fishing for pickereland perch on lakes in-habited by the speckledtrout, catch themthrough the ice. In the Berkshiresthere is a small lakeknown as Three Mile.Three Mile brook is theoutlet of the little lakeand has brook trout.Naturally there are troutin the lake. Some timeago some men fishingthrough the ice with theordinary types or pick-erel traps used for thepurpose, took fourteenbrook trout averaging apound. The story doesnot tell whether they putthem back or not, butthat they caught thetrout I know to be afact. I might add thatone of the best knownand most skillful fly fish-ermen in Massachusettsthis wild-cat was in a hurry. photografh made has repeatedly fishedat close range. Three Mile Pond for
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GAME AND GAME FISH IN WINTER 495 brook trout during theopen season, with fliesand everything else ex-cept dynamite, but with-out success—not a singletrout. This is a fine situationto theorize about if youare given to theories.Opening day trout fish-ermen have the best luckbottom-fishing with bait,and they will tell youthat the trout of Aprilfirst or fifteenth as thecase may be, althoughthey take the bait veryfreely, are extremely slug-gish when hooked andwhen landed are foundgenerally to be in poorcondition. It would seemthen that the brook troutis a light feeder in win-ter rather from lack ofopportunity than from in-clination, for the condi-tions prevailing early inApril are usually dis-tinctly wintry. I have taken brooktrout on bait standingin snow up to my knees;also in the worst of aheavy snowstorm. Un-der the same conditionstrout have been taken onflies. Brook trout in Oc-tober or November arefound at the headwatersof streams and up the little feeder brookswhere they resort dur

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