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Show which have lioen put together nro al-. most legion, nnil now ou"S aro shown every spring. There Bro fishermen who 1 persist in using th bait all tlirmiLfh tlirir i season. It is a fact often proved by ob- i nervation that in March ir April the bait iH more killing than the fly, but that from May to the end of Iho Heaven the Uy fisher will till hh creel when iho bait THE PRIDE OF THE BROOK IT 13 THE HIGHLY PHIZED AND DEL" ICATELY FLAVORED TROUT. Yhe Strcaim Tlirouijlioiit . thi rnitrd Ntatra Where It May Ho Found, n ml I ha Mnnlhii In Wlilrh IM Killing 1 Liv-ful Liv-ful A l'c'iirttliii !ivrt. Vv'Uk'i-M - I .. -ji.-" I.TiinriiTi spring in America rarely comes redolent with tho breath of the violet, bnt arrives generally accompanied by pi ere i n g Kah s and pelting hail-storms, hail-storms, tho time has duo supremo mleiniing point it is till! OlH'll- ZhM iS' r '. V -. V 'jf :. V . im of tho pe-ison for trout fi.-hiti. Nowhere in the world can this charming charm-ing sport be enjoyed in a renter Tfe! tian than in the United .st-ites, and no-Where no-Where can it be en joyed for so Ion;;, not-uitii'jtitinlniu' not-uitii'jtitinlniu' tho legislation enacted to juvscrve the fish. After tho tir 't tUhiiu?, wliicli is that, i f Lon. Island, is nearly at r.n end then that of southern Ohio and New York commences and contiu-alon'j contiu-alon'j tliroiiuh tho sumiii'T in the 1'ennsylvania streams mid the waters of npicr New York, and later than Sep-U'lnlx-r in Maine. Or t!io ardent Lhoriuau may bi'.nin parlier and farther alield. On the coasts of the I'acitio ho can whip '.ho rwift htreatr.s of Orjon or even draw his prizo out of an ii'ehole near I'orli.-md, whero the laws nnit him to kill after Feb. 1; thence coia'DK southward and eastward east-ward he finds the piliw lish everywhere fine aad plentiful. In March ha may f..-h in the swirling rapids of small ctreaiiis emptying into tho Kio U ramie, r.i:d toward April, turnin;; nort.heasfei-ly hi- will reach the streams of Lon;.,' Island in time for 'lie tmnt of that region, vast in number and of unrivaled '.tci lle'ice. i A little later he will find ampin exercise 'J f. r hif skill io the waters f northern t!id westevn Pennsylvania, wliilo there r.i!i remai:n fur his iippetito, i.nnni by What it fed on, tho streams of northern IKow York, of Maino and New Kn'Iaud Hid la.it, t.j: into the snmii.er, iho lakes m;d ri-.'":4 v.liicb empty into the St. Lawrence and ihe wild bhores cf Gaspy itiid Ci:.'U'T.rs. Aliko as they are in Kini'i.il trails, tho fish of each stream and lako iias some peculiar feature; even two kike toiu-iiiuricntin toiu-iiiuricntin with each other by a con:-luou con:-luou ciuniiel luay contain two dill'uruut ", y TttK AM'IT.Ell THOM TIITC CITV AT WOWt. j fishi r will have t i pureh-i'n fish in or-1 der to 'reservo his rejuitation. As to flies themselves, (ho ib-bato anions nu-piers nu-piers as to whether they should be accurately accu-rately copied from nature or composed of any g'iv and taking colors similar to nothing in c.istelir; is going on still, anj probably will go on whilo a trout remains re-mains in tho streams. Tho men who l:sli and let others do l he talking prefer in general the gay fly, particularly tin rod hackle, which has more anient votaries vota-ries than any other. Last year i he gaudy scarlet ilnti feather Willi a gold tinsel bodv was used with good eit'ect. l:i tiie fishing around Capo (,'od last spring tho ginger hackles d opening to jet black wero rplemlidly mioeo.ful, wbilu in othi r streams of Massachusetts this particular fly kihVl nothing, and was mijier;ioilt;d by a, hacklo with gold tinseled tin-seled body and a black pahnor. )n tho jdarshpee river tlm copper and frrojn peacock hurl had its own way quite through iho season of 18-!), but in J.SUi) it was found to bo almost valueless. A man wlio wishes to kill trout must not imagine they aro bullheads, but ro tibout it in tho belief that these fish have brains and memory. Ho it is every man for himself, and tho le. s outs vaunts his particular Uy tho better. la fact, one might use the saino words nb"ut nearly everything in connection with trout lishing. Much as ono would liko to advise the enviahlo youth wiio is Laving his first season of sport this spring, litllo that is valuaLlo can bo iiu- If t :. ', yi 's'e'.i'!( -- t- parted by even tho oldest hand at tho rod and t.-wklo. Every man must learn his own territory by experience, and generalizations gen-eralizations in this art are not very useful use-ful in America, however well they may ft-rvo m Kuropo. This certainly can be saiil, that no way of trout lishing, however how-ever great tho catch by other methods, is so delightful as with tho fly, tho rod w;d reel und the landing net. Then tho angler ia prepared for tho Juniata, the Wyoming and other equally finci streams in the Allegheny and liluo Iii'lge. Ho is ready, too, for tho lovely nod romantic Chemung, in western New York, for tlm i-.pleiidid fishing grounds of tho lilack river and the Kacket, and, indeed, in-deed, so expert will ho become with practice,, both in choosing flies and cust-i cust-i jng them, that whether he fishes in the ' crystal streams of the northern Ohio I counties, in tho cold mineral waters of j the Lake Superior region, in the pint) i breaks of Maine und tho Adirondack liOTIT DO FQCATXY WH.U highlands, a fair measure of success and a far more than proportionate degree of pleasure will be his. Wilms Stkell. rtF. Ptsiir.s in old FAarrroNED stvi.e. j .nds oF trout, one beautiful and excellent excel-lent eating, the other dark and almost nnfit for food, tho two varieties never Laving li eu known to mingle or to ex-rhango ex-rhango from ono to tho other lake. Without pausing on this apparent pho-romenon, pho-romenon, which is explained by the quality of tho waters themselves, to mention men-tion it is to show that tho period 4 of ppawning, of growth, increase and decay de-cay are likewise variable, therefore the legislative enactments of various states aro easily comprehended in ppite of their wido diversity. Volume 1 of tho book of the gamo laws for 1S!U shows t he open season when killing by recognized legal methods is permitted. .Delaware June I to N' w. 1. Pennsylvania April 15 to July V. Now York May 1 to Sept. lb lou Ixing Island April 1 tolsept. 11. Minnesota May 1 to Sept. !.". Jhussiu'liusetts April 1 to Sept. 1. Oliio March 15 to Sopt, 13. Mulno-JUiiy 1 to Oct. 1. JlicliiR.in May 1 to Sopt. I. Maryland April 1 to Auk. IS. Now Jersey April 1 to July V. Sow Ilampshira nnil Vermont May 1 to E-'pt. 1. Nevada Juno 1 to Jan. 1. Iihodo Island March 1 to Aur. IS. Tho American trout is a distinct ppe-cies ppe-cies from tho fish of Europe, and not in nppearance only does ho differ from his elder brother. Many of his habits aro essentially different, and tho English j fisherman of acknowledged reputation ; has to learn his business over again bo- fore ho can contend with this cunning, , fihy and active freeborn piscatorial citi- '. zcn. Tho principal distinction between the trout of American waters and thoso j of England is the great uniformity of j gize among the former. Rarely, if ever, j do they exceed three pounds in weight, I find the young angler may safely put I down as a "fish story" any accounts of larger ones being caught, or if he lands j a bigger specimen in his own net he j may wisely class it among another fpe- j ties. There have been tha few excep- j tions which prove the rule. On Long Island there aro two instances of record in the space of five years of triiut over six pounds being taken. A dusty, parch-montliko parch-montliko paper still hangs in a hotel oiiico frequented by Long Island fishermen, fisher-men, which shows the outlines of a fsh that weighed fourteen pounds. But the Koborly inclined say that those tracings, ,' without a mark beyond the outline, , prove nothing at all, or else that the ' tii'to was a salmon. 1 Another peculiarity of the American 1 trout is that it is rarely found in any 1 largo rivers. All tho trout which are j taken are caught in what aro called t creeks, and what the English would call rivers. Vet in his haunts and methods of taking his prey the American broolj ' trout shows a marked resemblance to the foreign variety , and so we havo done ; well to loam of tho Old World how to snare him. I'- was about 1H10 that a celebrated English sportsman first used the fly on Lou Island waters, and took Eear Fireplace s catch of fifty good fish before dinner, a fe:tt which is still talked of admiringly by the anglers at Car-man's Car-man's pond. Xhis Englishman used a f y which is described as follows: Body of hare's ear f jr and hackle of a wood-, dock's wingsi 4 fl to which old fish- j frnien who make their own often now I resort. I ... tsinco this tremendous take the flics I |