. Outing. take a getting out in the winter time, justhalf dozen trout in a days fishing— try it once. Weather- and brush-proofwith worms or in any other way. Yet a clothes, a rifle or a camera for company,friend of mine can usually show you and an interest in the things you mayfifteen or twenty good trout taken from pick up about the dwellers in the streamthis stream on flies almost any day. and forest comprise the outfit. TheThat is another sort of sport. field of the winter life of game and This is not saying that the amiable game fishes is a very large one. Possiblymetropolitans are entirel
. Outing. take a getting out in the winter time, justhalf dozen trout in a days fishing— try it once. Weather- and brush-proofwith worms or in any other way. Yet a clothes, a rifle or a camera for company,friend of mine can usually show you and an interest in the things you mayfifteen or twenty good trout taken from pick up about the dwellers in the streamthis stream on flies almost any day. and forest comprise the outfit. TheThat is another sort of sport. field of the winter life of game and This is not saying that the amiable game fishes is a very large one. Possiblymetropolitans are entirely lacking in the the following few notes, necessarily nei-right spirit, for they are not; the mere ther exhaustive nor detailed, will be offact that they show a certain apprecia- interest to those whose experience out-tion of what we mean when we say doors has been limited to the open sea-trout fishing is evidence of the ex- of the right idea. It is merely Winter observation of the habits of. WHERE TWO FOXES CAME DOWN FROM THEMOUNTAIN. 494 THE OUTING MAGAZINE fish is a pretty difficult matter; as, in- as the trout brook of June is small con-deed, is actual observation of stream life solation to the man who wants to knowat any time. The things we know about about trout. And yet it would appeartrout and bass and other game fishes that the man who follows down hishave been in great part gathered from favorite stream when that stream isobservation of specimens in confinement nothing more than so much snow andin hatcheries and aquariums. By this is ice learns something about trout; justmeant knowledge of the life of fishes, what, it would be difficult to put intoapart from certain phases well known words, but the fact remains that theto any experienced angler. The trout angler who has an all-the-year-roundstream in winter, banked with snow and, acquaintance with his stream has a cer-save in the rifts where the current is tain advantage over the man whosevery broken and
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