Then there came a sorting of flies, and the rigging of lines and reels.

Within a few minutes the three were ready to start out.
As they went up the stream Dick cut and trimmed two crotched sticks on which to string the fish they might catch.
"That looks almost boastful," chuckled Dave.

"It looks as though we thought it a cinch that we're going to get a lot of trout." "It all depends on us," Prescott rejoined.

"The brook is simply full of trout, that we can catch if we display the requisite amount of skill.

The mystery to me is that this brook has escaped the knowledge of the trout fishermen in Gridley.