THE GAME FISHES OF THE 

 PACIFIC COAST 



Like in that portion of this work devoted to the 

 game birds, this also is written in popular language, 

 avoiding, as far as possible, all technical words and 

 phrases, with the intention of furnishing a plain de- 

 scription of the game fishes of the Coast which any- 

 one, unlearned in the science of ichthyology, may un- 

 derstand, and by which be able to identify any of the 

 fishes he may capture. 



With fishes, like with birds, there are certain parts 

 that must be referred to in order to show wherein one 

 species differs from another. Wherever these parts 

 have a common English name, that name has been 

 used. But as there are a few parts that can only be 

 referred to by their scientific names, a diagram has 

 been added showing the location of all parts referred 

 to in the text. 



In scope it treats only of such varieties as rise to 

 the fly or are caught by trolling with rod and reel, 

 whether from the stream, lake, bay or ocean, and fur- 

 nish sport to the angler who fishes for the exhilarating 

 pleasure their capture affords. 



The Pacific Coast is rich in game fishes, not only in 

 the varieties found in its lakes and streams, but as well 

 the varieties found in its lakes and stream, but as well 

 in its bays and estuaries, while the broad ocean fur- 

 nishes varieties whose size and fighting qualities are 

 not surpassed, even if equaled, in any other part of 

 the world. To place in the hands of the young angler, 

 and others who may not have given the subject the 

 necessary attention, a convenient handbook by the 

 aid of which even the novice may readily recognize 

 the species of fish he has landed, is the object of these 

 pages. 



All of the salmon, the trout, the chars, the white- 

 fish and the lake herring have been classed by the 

 naturalist in one family and given the name, Salmon- 

 idae; but it is only with three genera of the subfamily, 

 Salmoninae that we are concerned. These are the 

 Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus), the true trout (Salmo) 

 and the Eastern trout and the dolly varden trout 

 Salvelinus). The Atlantic salmon belong to the genus 

 Salmo, the same as the true trout, and have but one 

 species (Salmo salar), which partake more of the habits 

 of the trout than do their Pacific cousins. 

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