. Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform] : illustrated from nature. Fishing; Fishes; Pêche sportive; Poissons. m £ [ â ⢠-⢠'**â ^ '^ «â * I 266. AMERICAN FISHES. âf mine on whoso a« 1 oan P"rfe«"y --"ly' "â "* '» "'"'"' ' ^'""^ con^Mbtodness for .any facts stated in this pap,, azures ^ that ho has nevor inown Trout to tako the fly more free y than Zing a northeasterly snow-storm. Still, 1 mnst those a. tep'tions to the general rule ; and 1 at least woul
. Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform] : illustrated from nature. Fishing; Fishes; Pêche sportive; Poissons. m £ [ â ⢠-⢠'**â ^ '^ «â * I 266. AMERICAN FISHES. âf mine on whoso a« 1 oan P"rfe«"y --"ly' "â "* '» "'"'"' ' ^'""^ con^Mbtodness for .any facts stated in this pap,, azures ^ that ho has nevor inown Trout to tako the fly more free y than Zing a northeasterly snow-storm. Still, 1 mnst those a. tep'tions to the general rule ; and 1 at least would ^^ee'. '^ "^f my ehoice, ' a southerly wind and a eloudy sky'-always Ihnnder-and no objcetion to a slight sprinkling of warm ram _ "There is another peculiarity to observe in the Long Island wale _Jd so far as I know, in them only-that Trout brte ^y better and more freely, when the water is ver, flue and clear than when it is in flood and turbid. Indeed, if there be a good on the surface, the water can hardly be too transparent. "It has been suggested to me, that this may be accoun ed or h, U,e act that in flood the waters are so well filled wrth natural b. , bat the fish become gorged and lazy. '-»-'-^^"^t this is perfectly satisfactory to n,c; as the same must bo he case, Ire or less, in all waters; whereas it is unquestronably the ease, ZZ\ hive fished, except on Long Island, that Trout are more easily taken in turbid than in fine water. "i, eonnectedwith the foregoing remarks, 1 wdl here add ha as a seneral rule, the minnow, with spinning or trollmg tackle, ⢠und to be more killing than ground bait in the ponds, and «« vena ZL tide srreams-prohably from the mere fact that *» âJ « the rarer in the one water, the red-worm in the other, and that each bv its rarity becomes the greater ; 'filnd this I have nothing to add, with respect to Trout-fishmg with the e«cption of a few
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