THE XAIIAYCUSH. 



THE LAKE TROUTS. 



Namaycush, Togue and Siscowet. 



The generous gushing of the springs, 



When the angler goes a-trolling, 

 The stir of song and summer wings, 

 The line which shines, and life which sings 

 Make earth replete with happy things 

 When the angler goes a-trolling." 



Thomas Tod Stoddart. 



'T^HE Mackinaw Trout, or Namaycush, is a non-mii^ratory species inhab- 

 iting the chain of Great Lakes from Superior to Ontario, as well as Lake 

 Champlain and many other smaller lakes of the L^nited States and of 

 British America, occurring also to the Northeastward, in Mackinaw River 

 and in the Knowall River, Alaska. 



" The Lake Trout is," remarks Bean, " a species remarkable for its great 

 size, reaching 3 feet and sometimes weighing 40 pounds ; varying greatly in 

 coloration, the extremes noteworthy in Maine and Alaska. It seem to have 

 no parallel in Europe and is well separated from American species by its 

 peculiar vomer and its large number of pyloric caeca (about 150)." 



Every lake of Northern New York and New England has its own 

 variety, which the local angler stoutly maintains to be a different species 

 from that found in the next township. Some are as black as a tautog, 

 some brown with crimson s])ots, some gray, with delicate reticulations like 

 those of a pickerel. The usual type to be found in the Great Lakes is 

 brown or gray, dappled with lighter shades of the same general tints. 



