204 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Dimensions. 



Indies 

 .. 17 

 Girth 9 



Length, snout to tip of tail 17^ 



Meat firm and hard, but rather dry ; tasted very much like oSTo. 8. The 

 handsomest trout, and, on the whole, having the most perfect form of all 

 the trout we saw on the McCloud. Also, the only fish that had colored 

 spots. This one was profusely spotted over most of the body with red-^ 

 dish golden spots. (See drawing.) Possibly the iSahno spectahilis, Pa- 

 cific Railroad Eeports, vol. xii, p. 342-3. (See note.) Oul}- a medium 

 table-fish, at this season. Eare. 



No. 27. This trout is rare in the loAver waters of the McClond, hut common at its 

 head-waters. Fisliermen say that this trout is caught nowhere else in California. It 

 is considered a great luxury at Soda Springs, on the Little Sacramento, from which 

 place parties often travel the fifteen-mile trail to the Upper McCloud to catch it. Mr. 

 I. F. Frye, of Soda Springs, once caiight a mountain-trout of two pounds on his hook, 

 and as he was just in the act of pulling it out of the water, it was seized by a monstrous 

 wye-dar-d^eMt, which Mr. Frye says could not have weiglied less than 20 pounds. 

 The latter fish was lost, hut the niouutain-tront showed the marks of his tdcth on both 

 sides. 



S'o. 28. Yiscera to ISTo. 27. 



ISo. 29. Male salmon. McCloud river, California, September 23, 1872. 

 A clean, healthy, nice-looking fish, but not silvery. This fish belongs 

 to a class which are just beginning to come up the river, in limited num- 

 bers, called the fall run. Their flesh is quite palatable and good, and 

 there is considerable fat on them still. Their scales have usually been 

 absorbed, and the surface of the skin is smooth and slimy. These are 

 the only salmon now coming up the river. All the others are floating 

 down the river, dead or dying. The milt of this fish was well developed 

 and flowing. Girth, 15 inches. (See drawing.) 



ISTo. 30. Large, full-grown male salmon. September 23, 1872, McCloud 

 River, California. Weight, 20 pounds ; girth, 21 inches ; girth at anus, 16 J 

 inches; length, 38 inches. (Consult Salmo canis, W. Pacific Railroad 

 Report, vol. xii, p. 341.) (See drawing.) (See note.) 



No. 30. This fish was 07ie of the JartjeM, if not the largest, which we saw on the 

 McCloud. He was thin and worn, hut would have weiglu^d nearly 40 pounds when 

 iu good condition. 



Xo. 31. Viscera to No. 30. 



ISTo. 32. Male salmon. McCloud River, September 25, 1872. Girth, 

 in front of dorsal, ] G inches ; at anus, 13 inches. ISTo drawing was taken 

 of this fish. 



No. 33. Viscera to No. 32. 



There is no No. 34. 



No. 35. Grilse. The skin was accidentally scraped somewhat with a 

 knife. September 25, 1872, McCloud River, California. 



