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mountains, and is found in allhis beauty 
and gameness in the streams of North- 
ern Wisconsin and Michigan, and none 
surpass, in these qualities, the crimson 
barred fish of the Au Sable river. We 
caught them of all sizes, from the fing- 
erling, with its strongly defined parr 
markings, to the robust fighter of two 
pounds, and an authenticated catch of 
one weighing over five pounds was re- 
ported to us. 
It is a matter for earnest gratulation 
among anglers, particularly those of 
the Western States, that a compara- 
tively new game fish, abounding in 
good qualities on the rod, has been, 
given to them. For years past, the fail- 
ure of the rainbow to maintain itself 
in our eastern waters has been the 
origin of reflection upon the judgment 
of that sterling fish culturist, the late 
Seth Green, who was the first man to 
bring the fish from the Pacific slope 
and breed them in the Eastern State 
hatcheries. Their great numbers in 
some waters, excellent food quality and 
unusual gameness, indicate that the 
father of practical fish culture in 
America was, as he had always been in 
other cases, correct in his knowledge of 
the adaptability of the rainbow to many 
waters east of the Mississippi river. In 
his grand and useful life, had he done 
nothing else for the craft, for he was 
of our guild as well as a skilled fish 
culturist for the public good, the anglers 
east of the Rocky mountains should 
erect a memorial in evidence of their 
gratitude to him for the gift of the rain- 
bow trout, than which, inour judgment, 
no gamer fish exists when he is found 
in the spring waters of Michigan and 
Wisconsin. 
We have caught, with feathers, the 
rainbow beauty in his native wild 
waters of Washington, and in THE 
The American Angler 
AMERICAN ANGLER of December 8, 1888, 
printed the annexed brief notes: 
‘‘The rainbow trout is called ‘red 
sides’ in many sections of the Pacific 
slope, and other names such as ‘moun- 
tain trout,’ trout,’ ‘golden 
trout,’ etc., are locally used.” Diese 
fish, we think, are the most game of 
any we met with during our Western 
outing. They made a sturdier fight 
than the Rocky mountain black spotted 
trout, or the grayling of Montana, leap- 
ing frequently into the air and surging 
stronger than the proud brook beauty 
of the Alleghanies. I caught the rain- 
bow on similar flies to those that lure 
the black spotted trout and the gray- 
ling of the Rockies. They were, we 
thought, more indifferent to shades of 
color and forms of flies than either of 
the two fishes named, and they were 
equally numerous and eager in all con- 
ditions of the stream; the quiet pools, 
the rifts or rushing rapids, the long 
stretches of either still or foaming 
reaches, the eddies below out-jutting 
rocks or the swift and narrow waters 
between them, all yielded the red 
sides. I noted that they were much 
quicker in their movements than the 
black spotted trout and the grayling, 
particularly in seeking the shelter of 
neighboring rocks or holes, reminding 
one somewhat of the mangrove snap- 
per of Floridian waters, but only in 
that trait, when first hooked, as, under 
the restraining line, upon being foiled, 
they came grandly from the water, 
leaping once, at least, nearly two feet 
into the air.”’ 
We have but little to add to the 
above in praise of the rainbow as a 
rod fish, except that in Michigan he is 
a greater fighter, when hooked, than 
we found him to be in his native waters. 
He appeared to be a stronger fish, and 
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