174 The Pacific Salmon 



ermen setting large-meshed gill-nets in deep water 

 for lake trout frequently obtained steelheads four- 

 teen to eighteen inches long, one man at Isle 

 Royal reporting twenty-seven fish thus caught by 

 him. Most of the fish secured in the nets were 

 not gilled, but were held by the dorsal fin after 

 the head had passed through the nets; smaller- 

 meshed nets would undoubtedly have taken many 

 more fish. A member of the Duluth fly-casting 

 club states that in two days members of his club 

 caught over four hundred steelheads in Sucker 

 River, he himself taking eighty-five fish in one 

 day ; he further reports that he has personal 

 knowledge of not less than twenty-two hundred 

 steelheads taken with hook and line from French 

 and Sucker rivers in 1898. These fish were seven 

 to fourteen inches long, and took the artificial 

 fly as readily as do brook trout. The largest 

 specimen recorded was twenty-eight inches in 

 length. 



The quinnat salmon has been transplanted to 

 France, New Zealand, and Australia, but with no 

 very decided benefit up to this time. At the 

 Trocadero Aquarium in Paris the species has 

 been reared through seven or eight generations 

 in ponds. 



