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will take the fly when in shallow water from 

 about May 20 to June 10, and then again 

 in the spawning season from September 15 

 until November i. The early summer rise to 

 the surface and their sudden disappearance on 

 or about the tenth day of June is strikingly 

 similar to the habit shown by the cisco or lake 

 herring, which is also one of the salmonoids. 

 The large Dublin Pond trout are seldom taken 

 by any baits, no matter how deftly handled or 

 alluring, only two or three having been boated 

 any one season. 



The Dolly Varden trout {Salvelmus parkei), 

 with its coarser and more popular name of " bull- 

 trout," is widely distributed in the western waters 

 of the Rocky Mountain watershed ; it is found 

 as far north as Alaska, and south to the upper 

 Sacramento River, thence eastward to Montana 

 and Idaho waters. This trout has a stout body, 

 which is deep and less compressed than that of the 

 speckled trout of the East. It may also be known 

 by the size of the adipose or fatty fin, which is 

 unusually large, and the round red spots on the 

 sides, those on the back being paler and smaller ; 

 this characteristic has not been observed in any 

 other species of charr-trouts, the Dolly Varden, 



