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=By Charles Bradford=


    =The Determined Angler=

    "Most sensible volume of its kind."--Grover
    Cleveland. 12º. illustrated.
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    =The Angler's Secret=

    "A modern 'Compleat Angler.'"--N.
    Y. Times. 16mo illustrated. By
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    =The Angler's Guide=

    "A valuable volume of reference for
    the Angler."--Dr. Jas. A. Henshall.
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    =The Wildfowlers=

    A volume of duck shooting. "A
    classic."--N. Y. World. 16mo illustrated.
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    =Frank Forester=

    Life and Writings of the Father of
    American Fishing and Field Sports.
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    [Illustration: A MORNING'S CATCH OF TROUT NEAR SPOKANE, WASHINGTON

    "Three times too many for one rod."--_William T. Hornaday_
    An object lesson on the too-liberal fish laws. _See page 38_]




    The Determined Angler
    and the
    Brook Trout

    An Anthological Volume of Trout Fishing.
    Trout Histories, Trout Lore, Trout
    Resorts, and Trout Tackle

    By

    Charles Bradford

    Author of "The Wildfowlers," "The Angler's Secret."
    "The Angler's Guide," "Frank Forester," etc.

    [Illustration]

    _Second Edition, Greatly Enlarged_

    _Illustrated_

    G. P. Putnam's Sons
    New York       London
    The Knickerbocker Press
    1916


    COPYRIGHT, 1916
    BY
    CHARLES BRADFORD

    The Knickerbocker Press, New York


To

J. CHARLES DAVIS

THESE LITTLE YARNS ARE DEDICATED IN REMEMBRANCE OF SOME DELIGHTFUL
OUTINGS PASSED IN HIS SOCIETY.




THE BROOK TROUT'S HOME


    "I am _Salmo fontinalis_.
      To the sparkling fountain born;
    And my home is where oxalis.
      Heather bell and rose adorn
        The crystal basin in the dell
        (Undine the wood-nymph knows it well):
        That is where I love to dwell.

    There was I baptized and christened,
      'Neath the somber aisles of oak;
    Mute the cascade paused and listened.
      Never a word the brooklet spoke;
        Bobolink was witness then.
        Likewise grosbeak, linnet, wren--
        And all the fairies joined "amen!"

    Thus as _Salmo fontinalis_
      Recognized the wide world o'er.
    In my limpid crystal palace.
      Content withal, I ask no more.
        Leaping through the rainbow spray.
        Snatching flies the livelong day.
        Naught to do but eat and play."

        CHARLES HALLOCK.




BROOK TROUT ANGLING


"... it carries us into the most wild and beautiful scenery of
nature; amongst the mountain lakes, and the clear and lovely streams
that gush from the higher ranges of elevated hills, or that make their
way through the cavities of calcareous strata. How delightful in the
early spring, after the dull and tedious time of winter, when the
frosts disappear and the sunshine warms the earth and waters, to
wander forth by some clear stream, to see the leaf bursting from the
purple bud, to scent the odors of the bank perfumed by the violet, and
enameled, as it were, with the primrose and the daisy; to wander upon
the fresh turf below the shade of trees, whose bright blossoms are
filled with the music of the bee; and on the surface of the waters to
view the gaudy flies sparkling like animated gems in the sunbeams,
whilst the bright and beautiful trout is watching them from below; to
hear the twittering of the water-birds, who, alarmed at your approach,
rapidly hide themselves beneath the flowers and leaves of the
water-lily; and as the season advances, to find all these objects
changed for others of the same kind, but better and brighter, till the
swallow and the trout contend as it were for the gaudy