LOCH LEFEN rROUT 



among them this deHcious sea-run trout from 

 Loch Leven and the toothsome grayUng from the 

 continent. 



The fry that were hatched from the ova im- 

 ported in 1887 certainly did not develop into 

 Salmo Jario, for a brown trout had never been seen 

 in any of the lakes or brooks of the Sunapee sys- 

 tem. But so like are the young and adult Loch 

 Levens to our landlocked salmon, that many anglers 

 believe a Loch Leven trout is often fast, when 

 the exciting cry of " Salmon ! salmon ! " from 

 the fishing fleet greets the first frenzied leap of a 

 supposed ouananiche pierced by the lucky steel. 

 One Scottish authority unhesitatingly declares 

 the Loch Leven trout to be a landlocked salmon 

 dwarfed to its present proportions in its shallow 

 miniature ocean. But I believe it to be a land- 

 locked sea trout. With its purplish gray back, 

 and silvery sides starred with X and XX spots, 

 it so closely resembles the well-known migra- 

 tory Salmo trutta, that foreign experts commonly 

 fail to distinguish between the two fish. The 

 fin-ray formula is identical in each. Moreover, 

 sea trout that have been confined in fresh water 

 are absolutely indistinguishable from the true 

 Salmo levenensis. 



The theory that the differences observable in 



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