HISTORIES OF THE TROUTS--HOW THE ANGLER TAKES THEM
=Trout, Brook= (Speckled Trout, Mountain Trout. Fontinalis, Speckled
Beauty, Spotted Trout, etc.): Caught in the spring and summer in clear
streams, lakes, and ponds, on the artificial fly. Favors eddies,
riffles, pools, and deep spots under the banks of the stream and near
rocks and fallen trees. Feeds on small fish, flies, and worms. Breeds
in the autumn. Weighs up to ten pounds in large waters. There is a
record of one weighing eleven pounds. This specimen was taken in
northwestern Maine. Averages three quarters of a pound to one pound
and a half in the streams, and one pound to three pounds in the lakes
and ponds. Occurs between latitude 32-1/2 deg. and 55 deg., in the lakes and
streams of the Atlantic watershed, near the sources of a few rivers
flowing into the Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico, and some of the
southern affluents of Hudson Bay, its range being limited by the
western foothills of the Alleghanies, extending about three hundred
miles from the coast, except about the Great Lakes, in the northern
tributaries of which it abounds. It also inhabits the headwaters of
the Chattahoochee, in the southern spurs of the Georgia Alleghanies
and tributaries of the Catawba in North Carolina, and clear waters of
the great islands of the Gulf of St. Lawrence--Anticosti, Cape
Breton. Prince Edward, and Newfoundland; and abounds in New York,
Michigan, Connecticut, Pennsylvania. Maine, Long Island, Canada,
Wisconsin, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. For the larger specimens
use a six-ounce fly rod; for the tiny mountain specimens, a four-ounce
fly rod. Leaders: Single, fine, and long. Reel: Small click. Flies: 6
to 14 on the streams and 4 to 6 on the lakes and ponds. Patterns:
Quaker, Oak, Coachman, Dark Stone, Red Hackle. Blue Bottle, Bradford,
Wren, Cahil, Brown Drake. Brandreth, Canada, Page, Professor, Codun,
Dark Coachman, and the Palmers--green, gray, red, and brown. Use dark
colors on bright days and early in the season; lighter shades on dark
days, in the evening, and as the season grows warmer.
=Trout, Crescent Lake Blue-Back= (_Salmo beardsleei_): Beardslee
Trout, etc. A deep-water fish weighing up to fourteen pounds, found
only in Crescent Lake. Washington, and taken during April, May, June,
and October, chiefly on the troll. Leaps from the water when hooked.
Color: Upper, deep blue ultramarine; lower, white.
=Trout, Crescent Lake Long-Headed= (_Salmo bathaecetor_): Closely
related to the Steel-Head Trout. A deep-water fish of Lake Crescent,
Washington, caught only on set lines within a foot of the bottom. Will
not come to the surface; will not take the fly or trolling spoon.
Somewhat resembles the speckled trout of Crescent Lake, though more
slender and of lighter color.
=Trout, Crescent Lake Speckled= (_Salmo crescentis_): Closely
resembles the Steel-Head. Weighs up to ten pounds. Found in
Crescent Lake, Washington. An excellent game fish.
[Illustration: _Brook Trout._]
[Illustration: _Malma (Dolly Varden) Trout._]
[Illustration: _Lake (Mackinaw) Trout._]
=Trout, Dublin Pond= (_Salvelinus agassizii_): Inhabitant of Center
and Dublin Pond and Lake Monadnock, etc., New Hampshire. Differs from
the Brook Trout in being pale gray in color and more slender. Reaches
a length of eight inches. Brook Trout tackle.
=Trout, Green-Back= (_Salmo stomias_): A small black-spotted species,
inhabiting the head waters of the Arkansas and Platte rivers; abundant
in brooks, streams, and shallow parts of lakes. Common in the waters
near Leadville and in Twin Lakes, Colorado, in company with the
Yellow-Fin Trout, which see. Weighs up to one pound.
=Trout, Greenland= (_Canada Sea Trout_): Caught in midsummer on medium
Brook Trout tackle in Labrador, the rivers of considerable size in
Canada, and the lakes of Greenland. Rivals the Atlantic Salmon in
size, and is a fine sporting species. Averages two pounds in weight.
It frequents the sandy pits that are uncovered at half-tide. Higher up
the rivers it is found in the pools.
=Trout, Jordan's= (_Salmo jardani_): Lake Southerland Spotted Trout,
etc. Inhabits Lake Southerland, west of Puget Sound. Caught on the
artificial fly as late as October, and is a great leaper. Is
black-spotted. Resembles the Utah Trout in color and the Steel-head
Trout in shape.
=Trout, Kamloops= (_Salmo kamloops_): Stit-tse, etc. A form of the
Steel-Head. Abounds in Okanogan, Kamloops, Kootenai lakes, and other
waters tributary to the Frazer and upper Columbia rivers. Taken
chiefly on the troll. A large, gamy, graceful, slender fish. Color:
Dark olive above, bright silvery below.
=Trout, Lac de Marbre= (_Salvelinus marstoni_): Marston Trout, etc.
Found in Lac de Marbre, near Ottawa, the lakes of the Lake St. John
district, Lac a Cassette in Rimouski county, and Lake Soccacomi and
the Red Lakes in Maskinonge County, Canada. Takes the fly readily.
Color: Upper, dark brown; below, whitish pink unspotted. Reaches a
length of one foot.
=Trout, Lake= (Togue, Fresh-Water Cod, Tuladi. Lunge, etc.): Caught on
medium tackle with the troll and minnow bait in deep water, and, early
in the season, near the surface, the young rising to artificial trout
flies in rapid water. Occurs in all the great lakes of New Brunswick
and in many similar waters in Maine. Attains a weight of twenty-one
pounds. Haunts deep water as a rule, though often steals to the shoals
and shores in search of food, small fish, early in the morning and at
twilight.
=Trout, Lake= (Siscowet, Siskawitz): Caught on medium tackle and
small-fish bait along the north shores of Lake Superior. Haunts deep
water and feeds upon a species of sculpin. Attains a weight of thirty
pounds; averages four pounds. Its habits closely resemble those of the
Mackinaw Lake Trout.
=Trout, Lake= (Mucqua, Bear Trout, etc.): Caught in deep water on
medium tackle and small-fish bait on the south shore of Lake Superior.
Closely resembles the Siscowet Lake Trout of the same lake, if it
is not, as many think, merely a local variety of the same form.
[Illustration: _Oquassa (Blue-back) Trout._]
[Illustration: _Brown Trout._]
[Illustration: _Yellowstone Trout._]
[Illustration: _Saibling Trout (Long-fin Charr)._]
=Trout, Lake= (Winipiseogee Trout): Caught on medium tackle and
small-fish bait in Lake Winipiseogee and supposedly in Lake George.
=Trout, Lake= (Mackinaw Trout, Namaycush, Lake Salmon, Salmon Trout,
etc.): Caught with medium tackle on the troll and with minnow bait in
deep water in the chain of Great Lakes from Superior to Ontario, also
in Lake Champlain, New York, and other lakes of the United States and
British America, occurring also to the northeastward, in Mackinaw
River and in the Knowall River, Alaska. Is known as Mackinaw Trout in
Lakes Huron, Michigan, and Superior, and as Lake Salmon and Salmon
Trout in the lakes of northern New York. Is said to attain a weight of
ninety pounds and a length of six feet.
=Trout, Malma= (Dolly Varden Trout, Bull Trout. Speckled Trout, Lake
Trout, Red-Spotted Trout. Salmon Trout, Chewagh, etc.): Caught on
Brook Trout tackle in fresh water and Black Bass tackle in the ocean.
Occurs in northern California, west of the Cascade Range, throughout
the Aleutian Islands, and northward to Colville River in Alaska, and
is not unknown at Behring Island, and Plover Bay, Siberia. Taken in
the sea it is called Salmon Trout; in the lakes it is called by all
the names parenthesized above. In salt water it feeds upon shrimp,
smelt, young trout, sand lance, anchovy, herring, etc.; in fresh
water small fish, worms, etc. Weighs up to fourteen pounds in the
ocean; averages smaller in the lakes.
=Trout, Oquassa= (Blue-Back Trout): Caught on Brook Trout tackle in
the lakes of western Maine. New York, and New Hampshire. Attains a
length of ten inches.
=Trout, Saibling:= Caught on Brook Trout tackle in Massachusetts, New
York, New Hampshire, and Wisconsin. A native of northwestern Europe,
introduced in American Brook Trout waters.
=Trout, Sunapee= (_Salvelinus aureolus_): American Saibling, White
Trout, Golden Trout, Charr, etc. A native of Sunapee Lake, N. H., and
Flood Pond. Ellsworth, Maine, now being introduced in other lakes.
Favors deep water; takes live bait. Weighs up to twelve pounds.
=Trout, Utah= (_Salmo virginalis_): Abounds in the streams and lakes
of Utah west of the Wasatch Mountains--in Utah Lake and the Sevier,
Jordan, Bear, and Provo rivers. Weighs up to twelve pounds.
=Trout, Yellow-Fin= (_Salmo macdonaldi_): Found in Twin Lakes,
Colorado, in company with the Green-Back Trout, from which it is
distinct in color, habits, and size. Weighs up to nine pounds. Is
caught on the artificial fly and with the troll. Favors gravel bottom
in deep water.
=Trout, Yellowstone= (_Salmo lewisi_): Abundant in Yellowstone Lake,
Wyoming, and throughout the Snake River Basin above Shoshone Falls,
and the headwaters of the Missouri.
[Illustration: _Rainbow Trout._]
[Illustration: _Lake Tahoe Trout._]
[Illustration: _Steel-head Trout._]
=Salmon Trout, Black-Spotted= (Silver Trout, Black Trout,
Black-Spotted Trout, Preestl, etc.): Caught on the artificial fly in
the Rocky Mountain region, the lakes of New Mexico, Utah, Western
Colorado, Wyoming. Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. The young
are abundant in Puget Sound, and are occasionally taken along the
California coast. Weighs up to thirty pounds.
=Salmon Trout, Brown= (Brown Trout, etc.): Caught on the artificial
fly practically the same as Brook Trout are taken. Same rods, tackle,
and flies. Introduced in this country from Europe. Weighs up to twenty
pounds.
=Salmon Trout, Kansas River:= Caught on Brook Trout tackle from the
Kansas River to the upper Missouri. Reaches twenty-four inches in
length.
=Salmon Trout, Lake Southerland= (_Salmo declivifrons_): Found only in
Lake Southerland. Reaches a length of ten inches; is very gamy; takes
the fly, and leaps.
=Salmon Trout, Lake Tahoe= (Lake Tahoe Trout, Silver Trout, Black
Trout, etc.): Caught in Lake Tahoe. Pyramid Lake, and the streams of
the Sierra Nevada on Brook Trout tackle. Weighs up to twenty pounds.
=Salmon Trout, Loch Leven= (Loch Leven Trout, etc.): Introduced to
this country from Europe, in streams in Michigan, Maine, and other
States. Is taken on the artificial fly the same as Brook Trout.
=Salmon Trout, Rainbow= (Rainbow Trout, Golden Trout, Golden Salmon,
Brook Trout, Speckled Trout. Mountain Trout, etc.): Caught with the
artificial fly in fresh streams and salt rivers. Occurs from near the
Mexican line to Oregon and has been successfully introduced in the
Eastern and Northern States, where it is taken upon ordinary Brook
Trout tackle--light fly rod, fine leader, click reel, etc. Flies, same
as those flailed for Brook Trout. Season: Same as Brook Trout. Weighs
up to six pounds.
=Salmon Trout, Rio Grande:= Abundant in the headwaters of the Rio
Grande, Rio Colorado, and their tributaries; occurs in Bear River and
the streams of Utah.
=Salmon Trout, Steel-Head= (Hard-Head, Steel-Head Trout, etc.): Caught
mostly in nets. Reaches a weight of twenty-two pounds. Found along the
Pacific coast from the Sacramento River northward to Alaska. Abundant
in the Columbia and Frazer rivers in the spring. Inhabits
river-mouths.
=Salmon Trout, Waha Lake= (Waha Lake Trout, etc.): Caught on Brook
Trout tackle. A local form of the Black-Spotted Salmon Trout, found in
Waha Lake, a landlocked mountain tarn in Washington.