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Title: Fisherman's lures and game-fish food : with colored pictures from life of various creatures fish eat and new improved artificial imitation floating nature lures and chart-plans to show the haunts where fish feed on them in lake and stream
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Rhead, Louis, 1857-1926
Subjects: Fishes Fishing
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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streams in theState are located in the higher altitudes of theCatskills and Adirondack mountains, where thetemperature remains low, with ice and snow waterstill running up to the end of April, and oftenlater. Till that cold water is run off, all fish food,minnows, bottom creepers, and insects are stilldormant. The river is void of life, and is nearlyalways a raging flood. After the long winters restfrom fishing, most anglers naturally await theopening day with impatience, and, without real-izing what adverse conditions will greet them,take their first trip only to find their lines freezeto the rod-tip—no trout responding to their fiies;no insects in flight except a few small species onwarm days, which are rare. A member of New Yorks most exclusive fish-ing club told me that the opening day in 1919,after a very mild winter, was bitter cold. A heavysnow-storm made him very imcomfortable whilewading the stream, located at a low altitude inNew Jersey. He went on to say, fly-fishing was
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Adult brown trout feeding on minnows INTRODUCTORY 11 out of the question; my fingers froze to the rodhandle and the line fast to the tip; so I had toturn to the inevitable worm—even that was amiserable failure. There wont be good fishingfor a month. The first of May is plenty earlyenough for the opening of the trout season in theStates of New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania,and Connecticut. A far worse condition is presentat the closing date of the season, which needsimmediate attention and revision. Quoting from an anglers letter, written August2, I read: The river (Beaver Kill) seems now tocontain as many fish as in the spring. I caughtfour last evening, two fourteen and two sixteeninches long. Three were females, and I thoughtit a crying shame to take trout so late now theyare full of eggs. Whoever framed the law to closethe season on the the last day of August mustbe entirely ignorant of what is best for the fishand fair to the angler. The season should closeon the last day of Ju

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