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world. Twenty-pounders are taken in Klamath Lake, 

 Oregon, and the author has a nine-pounder, Fig. 53, 

 from the same region. It is a hard-fighting, good 

 eating fish and, in swift water, like the San Gabriel, 

 Feather and other rivers, is a joy to the man or 

 woman with the rod. 



Famous trout rivers are the Sequel, San Gabriel, 

 Truckee, Kern, Sacramento, Santa Ynez, Merced, Ven- 

 tura, Rogue, Carmel, Russian, Williamson and many 

 more, in which are found the Dolly Varden, cutthroat, 

 rainbow, golden, lake, silver, Tahoe, brook, brown, 

 in fact, almost every trout known, nearly all intro- 

 duced. The lakes are Bear Valley, Klamath, Tahoe 

 group, Weber, Blue Lakes and hundreds of others in 

 California, Oregon and Washington, affording a vari- 

 ety of scenery and sport unparalleled in the world, for 

 a complete list of which apply to the Southern Pacific 

 Railroad Company of San Francisco. 



STEELHEAD 



(Salmo gairdneri) 



The steelhead is a notable fish peculiar to the Pacific 

 coast and found in or at the little lagunas of every 

 notable stream as far south as the San Gabriel. They 

 are supposed by some to be rainbows gone to sea, but 

 they appear to be a different fish, making two up-the- 

 river runs in the year, affording fine sport. Twenty- 

 pounders have been taken in the Santa Ynez, and the 

 Rogue of Oregon affords fine sport for them. 



