It was a fine trout stream at times.

"Keep back, you lubber," replied Spalding; "what do you know about trout-fishing?

It was fishing weather, however, and my fly-rod, with a Parmachenee belle, kept us well supplied with steelheads and speckled trout, which were plentiful in the clear waters of a wandering trout brook running through a meadow below the camp.

Before him lay an open Pilgrim's Progress, and a drawer filled with feathers and furs, which he was busily manufacturing into trout flies, reading as he worked.

I should like to see one of you trying to handle a ten or fifteen-pound fish with nothing but a trout-pole.

The deep, still trout-pools of the Mercedbravest and strongest river of the valleywere coloured like beds of purple pansies; or they were vivid green, glinting with sparks of gold, like the wings of a Brazilian beetle.

"At the foot of these falls, in the summer season, the trout congregate; beautiful large fellows, from one to three pounds in weight; and a fly trailed across the current, or over the eddies, just at its outer edge, is a thing at which they are tolerably sure to rise.

CROSS, REUBEN R. Tying American trout lures; a practical guide to the production of dry files, wet flies, nymphs, and bucktails for pleasure and profit.

Trout trouble, and other trouble.

We passed even these signs of war and came into pines and open meadows we might have been driving to somebody's trout preserve.

This vast expanse of water is one of the best trout fishing resorts in the world.

I have even begun a treatise or panegyric on the great discoveries made by posterity in all arts and sciences, wherein I shall particularly descant on the great and cheap convenience of making trout-riversone of the improvements which Mrs. Kerwood wondered Mr. Hedges would not make at his country-house, but which was not then quite so common as it will be.

Splash!a great brown trout rolls in the shallow water like a porpoise in the sea.

We could see big trout swimming round, but they would not rise to a fly.

The squire will swear sadlythe Lord forgive himif he hears of a pike in the trout-runs.

Look at that village group, and paint the scene. Surrounded by a clear and silent stream, Where the swift trout shoots from the sudden ray, A rural mansion, on the level lawn, Uplifts its ancient gables, whose slant shade Is drawn, as with a line, from roof to porch, Whilst all the rest is sunshine.

I wanted to be free and comfortable for a month; to lay around loose in a promiscuous way among the hills, where beautiful lakes lay sleeping in their quiet loveliness; where the rivers flow on their everlasting course through primeval forests; where the moose, the deer, the panther and the wolf still range, and where the speckled trout sport in the crystal waters.

Near Dulverton station is an interesting trout nursery.

He used no gun, but he would set snares by the water-holes for quail and doves, and in the trout country he carried a line.

At all times the water is cold, and hence especially favorable for trout culture.

And say, Steve here could keep us supplied with trout galore, if only he fished from the bank, and didn't wade in.

In about two hours they arrived at their destination; and, after partaking of a lunch, which Frank had brought, they rigged their "flies," and Archie went up the brook a little distance, to try a place known among the boys as the "old trout-hole," while Frank dropped his hook down close to a large log that lay across the stream, near the place where he was standing.

For my part, I could not have been more astonished, were I to bring up the sogdollager with a trout-hook, having a cheese paring for the bait.

We follow downstream, where the speckled trout lie hid in the deep pools, and the song sparrows sing their sweetest, and at last find ourselves at the object of our quest, opposite the caves.

Now comes Pangbourne, with its lovely weir, where the big Thames trout love to lie.