The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout / an anthological volume of trout fishing, trout histories, trout lore, trout resorts, and trout tackle

by Charles Barker Bradford

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APPELLATIONS OF THE TROUTS

Trout, Bear: See Lake Trout Trout, Beardslee: See Crescent Lake Blue-Back Trout, Black-spotted Salmon Trout, Blue-Back: See Oquassa Trout Trout, Brook Trout, Brown Trout, Canada: See Greenland Trout Trout, Canada Sea: See Brook Trout and Greenland Trout Trout, Colorado River: See Black-Spotted Trout, Columbia River: See Black-Spotted Trout, Cousin: See Roach Trout, Crescent Lake Blue-Back Trout, Crescent Lake Long-Headed Trout, Crescent Lake Speckled Trout, Dolly Varden: See Malma Trout Trout, Dublin Pond Trout, European Brown Trout, Fresh-Water Cod: See Lake Trout Trout, Golden: See Rainbow Salmon Trout and Sunapee Trout, Great Lakes: See Mackinaw Trout, Green: See Black Bass Trout, Green-Back Trout, Greenland Trout, Hard-Head: See Steel-Head Salmon Trout Trout, Jordan Trout, Kansas River: See Kansas River Salmon Trout Trout, Kern River: See Rainbow Trout, Lac de Marbre Trout, Lake Trout, Lake Salmon: See Lake Trout Trout, Lake Southerland Salmon Trout, Lake Southerland Spotted: See Jordan's Trout Trout, Lake Tahoe: See Lake Tahoe Salmon Trout Trout, Lewis: See Yellowstone Trout Trout, Loch Leven Trout, Lunge: See Lake Trout Trout, Mackinaw: See Mackinaw Lake Trout Trout, Mackinaw Lake Trout, Malma Trout, Marston: See Lac de Marbre Trout Trout, Mountain: See Brook Trout, Small-Mouth Black Bass, and Rainbow Salmon Trout Trout, Mt. Whitney: See Rainbow Trout, Mucqua Lake: See Lake Trout Trout, Namaycush: See Lake Trout Trout, Namaycush Lake Trout, Nissuee: See Rainbow Trout, Noshee: See Rainbow Trout, Oquassa Trout, Pickerel: See Long Island Pickerel Trout, Pickerel: See Long Island Pickerel Trout, Pike: See Long Island Pickerel Trout, Pike: See Long Island Pickerel Trout, Rainbow: See Rainbow Salmon Trout Trout, Rainbow Lake: See Rainbow Salmon Trout Trout, Red: See Lac de Marbre Trout Trout, Red-Spotted: See Malma Trout Trout, Rio Grande: See Rio Grande Salmon Trout Trout, Rio Grande Salmon Trout, Saibling Trout, Salmon Trout, Sea: See Greenland Trout and Brook Trout Trout, Silver: See Black-Spotted Salmon Trout and Lake Tahoe Salmon Trout Trout, Siskawitz: See Lake Trout Trout, Siscowet: See Lake Trout Trout, Stone's: See Rainbow Trout, Sunapee Trout, Tahoe Trout, Togue: See Lake Trout Trout, Truckee: See Lake Tahoe Trout, Tuladi: See Lake Trout Trout, Utah Trout, Waha Lake: See Waha Lake Salmon Trout Trout, Waha Lake Salmon Trout, Western Oregon Brook: See Rainbow Trout, White: See Sunapee Trout, Winipiseogee: See Lake Trout Trout, Yellow-Fin Trout, Yellowstone

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CHAPTER II

HISTORIES OF THE TROUTS—HOW THE ANGLER TAKES THEM

Trout, Brook (Speckled Trout, Mountain Trout. Fontinalis, Speckled Beauty, Spotted Trout, etc.): Caught in the spring and summer in clear streams, lakes, and ponds, on the artificial fly. Favors eddies, riffles, pools, and deep spots under the banks of the stream and near rocks and fallen trees. Feeds on small fish, flies, and worms. Breeds in the autumn. Weighs up to ten pounds in large waters. There is a record of one weighing eleven pounds. This specimen was taken in northwestern Maine. Averages three quarters of a pound to one pound and a half in the streams, and one pound to three pounds in the lakes and ponds. Occurs between latitude 32-1/2° and 55°, in the lakes and streams of the Atlantic watershed, near the sources of a few rivers flowing into the Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico, and some of the southern affluents of Hudson Bay, its range being limited by the western foothills of the Alleghanies, extending about three hundred miles from the coast, except about the Great Lakes, in the northern tributaries of which it abounds. It also inhabits the headwaters of the Chattahoochee, in the southern spurs of the Georgia Alleghanies and tributaries of the Catawba in North Carolina, and clear waters of the great islands of the Gulf of St. Lawrence—Anticosti, Cape Breton. Prince Edward, and Newfoundland; and abounds in New York, Michigan, Connecticut, Pennsylvania. Maine, Long Island, Canada, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. For the larger specimens use a six-ounce fly rod; for the tiny mountain specimens, a four-ounce fly rod. Leaders: Single, fine, and long. Reel: Small click. Flies: 6 to 14 on the streams and 4 to 6 on the lakes and ponds. Patterns: Quaker, Oak, Coachman, Dark Stone, Red Hackle. Blue Bottle, Bradford, Wren, Cahil, Brown Drake. Brandreth, Canada, Page, Professor, Codun, Dark Coachman, and the Palmers—green, gray, red, and brown. Use dark colors on bright days and early in the season; lighter shades on dark days, in the evening, and as the season grows warmer.