Show v 7 J Ackerman q SPECKLED TROUT SEASON OPENS S T This ls Is ban raisIng time lime on speckled trout From now until September the fly rod and his Ills favorite book of ot the fiction fiction the fly book again become boon companions Speckled trout may be b legally leg caught In Maine from the be tiT the th Ice goes toes out In New York the first Saturday In April while In the Canadian provInces and ond from New England to Call Cali California fornia tornia the be season Iason breaks from the first of April to the tho first of Ma May Trout fishing calls for tor a II long long- tapered lone tapered split bamboo rod It Is the most beautiful and graceful In Inthe inthe the anglers angler for art art for the most fish in Inland waters With this virtue virtu of beauty of color and form torm there Is the th added Joy of gameness personified No sweeter morsel over ever pleased the palate of man than the th pink flesh of Df this courageous battler of clean and cold waters water It Is no wonder then that those responsible for tor the culture culture- culture and distribution of fish stocked flocked both lake and stream throughout the tho th land with this spotted warrior I Mountain streams stream from frum Wash Wash- Wath to lower California hold him from Maine to the hills of oC north Georgia the Ozarks of 1 and Arkansas Yellow Yellow- ston tone and most of our national parks New York 1 Wisconsin Michigan Minnesota Colorado the tho Dakotas Dakota Montana and In mountain streams ot of the the speckled beauty Is angled for and prized a above bove all ail other fish Th The he speckled trout unlike the bau bais and other game fish spawns in the the fall From that time until spring the tho fish eats cats little It if at ull During the winter food Is natural natural- naturally naturally ly Iy scarce When the th lee Ice gOes out In the spring and the th Insect life lire again comes Into inta being and the rains once oneo more mor wash down food to stream and well lake lake well that time Is now DOW and the trout are ar wal ng It Il Is the sorting time In the ripples at the th head hoad of the pOOls poole where the stream enters enter the th lake lakeland and when tho the fish are aro not sO whether the tho lowly land angleworm Is I festooned with a hook |