But trout-stream food chains grind along at their own uneven but steady pace. ❋ John Gierach (2008)
In a context unfamiliar to fly fishers, a mayfly, caddis or stonefly hatch could be considered an “infestation” instead of an occasion to catch fish, and what Bob did, simply enough, was to key the appearance of the major trout-stream insect hatches to the blooming of specific wildflowers along his local rivers. ❋ John Gierach (2008)
Of the two families, owners of the Factory (which had spoiled the Brawl as a trout-stream and brought all the mischief into the town), the senior partner, Mr. Rolt, went to Ebenezer; the junior, ❋ Unknown (2006)
Every time I hear this trout-stream platitude, I think of the 24-inch brown trout I caught on a size 24 midge in New York's Delaware River. ❋ Unknown (2003)
However, this poor Squire never made a greater mistake, than in hoping to end his life peacefully upon the banks of a trout-stream, and in the green forest of Bagworthy. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
Benet looked up from the dented edge, suddenly aware of cautious praise, and broke into the broadest and most unguarded grin Cadfael could ever recall seeing, and the speckled, limpid light blazed up in his trout-stream eyes. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 (1986)
In consequence of this we marched right through Ventersdorp, to our regret, as it looked quite a nice place, and there was a regular trout-stream flowing past it, in which a bathe would have been most welcome. ❋ Cecil Francis Romer (N/A)
The writer of these pages has seen four individuals at once standing up to their middles in a trout-stream, all adorned with black silk tiles, newly imported from the Rue St. Honoré. ❋ Various (N/A)
Fish-culture is now a recognized industry; every trout-stream of note and value is restocked from time to time as a matter of course; salmon-hatcheries are numerous, though their practical utility is still a debated matter, in Great Britain at any rate; coarse fish are also bred for purposes of restocking; and, lastly, it is now considered a fairly simple matter to introduce fish from one country to another, and even from continent to continent. ❋ Various (N/A)
Some years ago, at Farningham, (a village through which a noble trout-stream takes its course), stood a flour-mill, the proprietor of which informed my father, that he had often observed an enormous trout in the stream, near the mill-head, and that he would endeavour to catch it, in order to ascertain its real dimensions, as he was very desirous to have a picture done from it. ❋ Various (N/A)
The builders of the Rhine-castles looked down the reaches of the river only to spy out their prey or their enemy; the monks in their quiet valleys looked out for their trout-stream and kitchen-garden, but any interest beyond that would have been heathenish and dangerous. ❋ Various (N/A)
The mile-stone was on the summit of a rise and the ground sloped away on his right to a reach of green water-meadow through which a chalky trout-stream wandered, and the red roof of an old mill showed through a group of silvery poplars and willows. ❋ Marguerite Bryant (N/A)
Formerly he had whipped the social trout-stream with great success. ❋ Lemuel Ely Quigg (N/A)
It contained the two sides of an extensive valley, sweeping gradually down to the Winthra, a beautiful trout-stream murmuring along the ravine. ❋ I. E. M. (N/A)
