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RED SPECKLED TROUT. 



The trout taken by tlie party are the genuine 

 Red SpecJded Brook Trout^ Lake Trout not being* 

 known in the h)eality. Many anglers will doubt 

 that these trout, from their enormous size, are 

 the genuine brook trout, but sueh they most 

 assuredly are, Prof. Agassiz, the higheist author- 

 ity, having classed them as Salmo fontinalis. 



The spots and tints are as beautiful as can 

 be iniagined; and the fisli increase in beauty as 

 they increase in size. They have all the recog- 

 nized peculiarities of brook trout, such as scpiare 

 tails, small heads, the inside of the mouth l)lack 

 (instead of white, like lake trout) ; and lastly, 

 the beautiful bright vermilion spots which char- 

 acterize ail brook trout. 



Following is an exact account of the nund>ers 

 and weights of thirty brook trout taken by eight 

 of the party; average time of tishing about six 

 dajs each. In this list none are mentioned 

 under four i)ounds each, although an immense 

 quantity of smaller ones were taken. It is, 

 without doubt, the greatest catch of large brook 

 trout by any one party, in the same time, ever 

 known; and the world is challenged to i)ro- 



