TROUT FLY-FISHING IN AMERICA 



David Starr Jordan says of this trout: 



"The head, back, and upper fins are sprinkled with round 

 black spots, which are variable in number, those on the dorsal usu- 

 ally in about nine rows. 



"The color, as in all the other species, is bluish, the sides sil- 

 very in the males, with a red lateral band, and reddish and dusky 

 blotches. 



"In specimens taken in the sea this species, like most other 

 trout in similar conditions, is bright silvery and sometimes im- 

 maculate. • 



"Although not usually an anadromous species, the rainbow 

 trout frequently move about in the rivers, and it often enters the 

 sea, large sea-run specimens being often taken for steelheads. 



"No true rainbow trout have been anywhere obtained to the 

 eastward of the Cascade Range or of the Sierra Nevada, except 

 as artificially planted in the Truckee River. 



"Several attempts have been made to introduce it in Eastern 

 streams, but it appears to seek the sea when it is lost. 



"It is apparently more hardy and less greedy than the Ameri- 

 can Charr, or brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis). On the other 

 hand, it is distinctly inferior to the latter in beauty and gaminess." 



Professor Evermann says: 



"The Rainbow takes the fly so readily that there is no reason 

 for resorting to grasshoppers, salmon eggs or other bait. 



"It is a fish whose gaminess will satisfy the most exacting of 

 expert anglers, and whose readiness to take any proper line will 

 please the most impatient of inexperienced amateurs." 



Sub-species of Salmo-irideus 



West Oregon Rainbow Trout 

 (Salmo-irideus-masoni) 



This is a small rainbow trout ; it is a native of the forest 

 streams of the western part of Oregon, on account of 

 which it gets its name. 



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