spawning-bed

Updated: September 10, 2025

There the water was contracted to a narrow strait, and in the swift current, close to the point, the great trout had fixed their spawning-bed from time immemorial. It was the first week in September, and the magnates of the lake were already assembling the Common Councilmen and the Mayor and the whole Committee of Seventy.

Henry Van Dyke - Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness