AMERICAN SAIBLING 



OR GOLDEN TROUT 



FROM the second annual report of the 

 Commissioners of Fisheries, Game, and 

 Forests of the State of New York, 1897, 

 the following is quoted by permission of 

 the author. Dr. John Duncan Quackenbos : — 



In the summer of 1882 anglers first began to 

 hear of the capture of a large, silvery, deep-water 

 trout at Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire. For 

 several years this fish was known as the St. John 

 River trout, on the presumption that it was de- 

 scended from certain yearlings rumored to have 

 been introduced into Sunapee from the St. John 

 River, New Brunswick, in 1867, but which really 

 came from Grand Lake, Maine, and were ouanan- 

 iche. The conspicuous development of the under 

 jaw in the males led to the local names of 

 "hawk bill" and "hook-bill"; the silvery sides 

 of the fish in summer gave rise to that of " white 

 trout." 



