324 TROUT AND ANGLING. 



is often difficult to settle these shades of difference, 

 on account of the supposition that they are capa- 

 ble of hybridous productions, it is sufficient to 

 know that there are but three principal varieties 

 in this state. 



These are pond-trout, river or brook'trout, and 

 sea-trout. The two former being such fish as live 

 exclusively in fresh water, and the latter, such as 

 live, a great part of the year, in that which is salt 

 or brackish, ascending the streams as spring ad- 

 vances, and returning to their native element so 

 soon as the spawning season is over. 



There are but few natural ponds or lakes in this 

 state which contain trout, for it is that which is 

 found in natural ponds, which we denominate ponoV 

 trout, and not the more common fish which is 

 generally found in artificial mill-ponds, and which 

 closely resembles such as are found in the brooks 

 and rivers, which being flooded form the ponds. 

 The species referred to are found in Winnipis- 

 seogee Lake, in New Hampshire, whence they 

 are often brought to market in a frozen state, but 

 are in no estimation for the table, the flesh being 

 white and quite tasteless. They are taken only 

 in the winter through the ice, but seldom or never 

 by the usual method of angling. 



These fish are doubtless natives of the lake in 

 which they are found, and like others of the same 



