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certainly leaped more frequently from 
the water. The improvement in the 
qualities of transplanted fish for food, 
and, in nearly all instances, for angling, 
is not unusual. If a fish thrives at all 
in waters foreign to his native habitat, 
a striking change will be noticed either 
in its size or flavor. The transplanted 
black bass from Western waters, as a 
rule, grows larger in the East than in 
the West, and at least holds his own, 
when on the hook, with the parent fish 
west of the Alleghanies. The ab- 
horrent carp brought from the Fader- 
land gets bigger, but more obnoxious 
as food with us, the more we see of 
him; the imported brown or German 
trout, which is becoming the butcher- 
The American Angler 
tiger of our beautiful brook trout, bids 
fair to become the Daniel Lambert of 
our spring waters, as he certainly is 
the tamest of our salmonoids when on 
the rod. 
The brook trout (/foztenalis) of the 
Au Sable are rapidly increasing, and so 
far as our stream observation went, ap- 
peared to be living in harmony with 
the grayling andthe rainbow. We saw: 
dozens of each in the pool beside our 
camping ground, lying side by side 
either in repose or meditation, for 
scarcely a wave of their pectoral fins 
could be noted, and later on in the day 
as the shadows spread over the pool, 
we caught from it successively a brook 
trout, a rainbow and a grayling. 

