CHAPTER IV 



SALMON-TROUTS CONTINUED — THE STEELHEAD 

 SERIES — TYPICAL STEELHEAD — KAMLOOPS TROUT 

 — BLUEBACK TROUT OF LAKE CRESCENT, WASH- 

 INGTON—SPECKLED TROUT OF LAKE CRESCENT, 

 WASHINGTON 



We now reach the steelhead series of salmon- 

 trouts of which there are one species and three 

 subspecific forms, the type being commonly 

 known on the Pacific slope as the steelhead, 

 hardhead, and salmon-trout, and scientifically as 

 Salmo gairdneri. It is a large sea-trout growing 

 to weight of twenty pounds or more, and is 

 migratory like the salmon, ascending rivers to 

 spawn many hundreds of miles into the state 

 of Idaho and into other sections. I have 

 taken them from the Snake River of southern 

 Idaho weighing three to five pounds ; in those 

 waters they spawn in the early spring, and are 

 found in the lower parts of rivers in a spent 

 condition when the usual spring run of the 

 salmon commences. For a long time the steel- 

 head and the rainbow were, owing to the close 



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