Or, yet later, in the late 19th century when, as industry overtook agriculture in Victorian Britain, anglers took over the waters for their sport and managed them as a place devoted to the business of catching trout using bits of feather and hackle tied to barbed hooks?
In April, Mr. Bonavist went to the stream in hopes of catching trout.
Sam lives off the land with disarming ease, taming a falcon called Frightful to hunt for game, catching trout, boiling mussels, making lamps from turtle shells, smoking venison, and hiding from wardens and hunters in a hollowed-out hickory tree.
This choice piece of water for those serious about catching trout is often jammed with fishermen and fishing boats.
Guddling, an old Scottish word that is phonologically close to noodling, can describe catching trout by hand, often by reaching under overhanging stones, as in this passage from Robert Louis Stevenson's "Kidnapped": " we spent a great part of our days at the water-side, stripped to the waist and groping about or (as they say) guddling for these fish".
(Come to think of it, just two activities will remain forever out of range of high-definition holography: catching trout and eating from buffets).
If the beach isn't for you, or in fact you had your sights set on fishing, drive northeast to Burguete, where Jake Barnes and Bill Gorton find catching trout comes easily in the nearby Irati River.
For them, it's just another Tom Sawyer summer in Alaska's little slice of Iowa, fishing a soccer ball out of the Sitka roses, riding bikes on dusty roads through neighboring farms, catching trout in the Salmon River.
"I thought there was no way he was catching it, and then when he came up with it while going over the wall … the timing was key for both of our catches," Trout said.
The Outdoors column last Sunday, about fishing for trout in Iowa, misstated the kinds of bait recommended by the state Web site for catching walleyes.
