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NE of the worst enemies of the salmon is, in 

 my opinion, the trout. Doubtless, in mak- 

 ing this statement, I shall arouse the ire of a great 

 many trout anglers, who very naturally wish to 

 see their favorite protected. Nevertheless, by 

 those who own salmon rivers and who want to 

 keep them as such, trout must be looked upon 

 as an enemy and a poacher of the worst 

 type. In support of this statement I will 

 cite facts that have come under my own observa- 

 tion. Many years ago when I was engaged 

 in trapping, I had a camp near a salmon 

 spawning bed on the head waters of the Trinity 

 River. Every fall, in October, this pool would 

 become full of trout, and it was just a mat- 

 ter of a few minutes to pull out all we wanted 

 either for food or to use in baiting our traps. On 

 cutting open these fish we invariably found them 

 full of salmon spawn, and occasionally, but not 

 often, salmon parr or some of their own kind. 

 Now, just imagine what havoc a few hundred 

 trout would create in a few days in such a pool! 

 Very likely what was happening there was appli- 

 cable to other portions of the river. We often 

 got trout in that pool up to the middle of Decem- 

 ber. After that they disappeared, or would not 

 take, because we never got any again before the 



