Chapter I: Front Matter

=By Charles Bradford=

=The Determined Angler=

"Most sensible volume of its kind."--Grover
Cleveland. 12º. illustrated.
By mail, $1.10. $1.00

=The Angler's Secret=

"A modern 'Compleat Angler.'"--N.
Y. Times. 16mo illustrated. By
mail, $1.10 $1.00

=The Angler's Guide=

"A valuable volume of reference for
the Angler."--Dr. Jas. A. Henshall.
200 pgs. By mail, 80 cts. .75

=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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"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.

_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 May fly, and till in pursuing your amusement in the calm and balmy evening, you are serenaded by the songs of the cheerful thrush ... performing the offices of paternal love, in thickets ornamented with the rose and woodbine."--_Days of Fly Fishing, 1828._

"Gentlemen, let not prejudice prepossess you. I confess my discourse is like to prove suitable to my recreation, calm and quiet.... And so much for the prologue of what I mean to say-"

Izaak Walton