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HOW THE RAINBOW TROUT FEEDS FEEDSThe The rainbow trout feeds on minnows and the in ¬ sects he can forage from the surface of the water To him a grasshopper is a dainty morsel and many of the big ones have been tricked into the creel by the wise angler who hooks on a lively hopper and casts it the same as a fly letting it float with the current in a natural manner and not trying to liven it up with a hunch of artificial jerks to fool the wise fellows He carries far more speed in his fight than the brown trout making a faster fight in every way in fact his battle on the fly re ¬ sembles the fight of the native brook trout About the first thing he does when hooked is to leap up into the air and his leap is a thing of beauty way up out of the water generally at this point in the scrap many depart to other waters having passed up the fly on the way
