The Trout of the Great Forest 131 



sea, from which they doubtless return in the fall as adults. 

 In nearly all the streams, particularly those of central and 

 northern California, there are two runs : those fish which 

 enter the streams in September and October ranging from 

 one to three or four pounds. My catches in the Oregon 

 streams in October, one hundred miles from the sea, and 

 among big salmon, were three- and four-pounders and hard 

 fighters; but in midwinter (it should be remembered that 

 winter here is like an eastern October) another " run " be- 

 gins of larger fish; eight, even twenty pounders, have been 

 claimed by enthusiastic anglers. Those fishes called silver- 

 sides, by some fishermen, big and fresh from the sea, have 

 a splendid luster, in sharp contrast to the smaller trout of 

 the fall run, whose gleaming sides have been dimmed by 

 their stay in fresh water. 



