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fly, leaps, runs, and plays more vigorously than a grilse. The 

 fish is gray on its back and sides, interspersed with white 

 scales, all of which are small, but brilliant. Epicures regard 

 the winninish as a higher luxury than either the brook trout 

 or salmon. Its head resembles the trout, but the mouth is 

 larger, and equally tough for holding a hook. The meat is 

 pink-colored. It takes either the minnow or the fly gener- 

 ously. Fish-culturists might with advantage turn their at- 

 tention to the winninish and the white trout. 



LAKE TEOUT OF MOOSEHEAD LAKE. This trout is unlike- 

 any other in the American waters. It is round in body, and 

 resembles the winninish in large first dorsal and large tail. 

 Its meat is straw-colored, and on each side below the gills are 

 five or six dark spots the size of peas, and like those on the 

 shad. It is clad in small scales, dark on the back, orange 

 sides, and belly like the doree or common river pickerel. Be- 

 ing so excellent a dinner-fish, it is surprising that the markets 

 of Maine continue to monopolize it to the exclusion of epi- 

 cures in other states. It is caught by the hand-line, as other 

 lake trout. 



BED TEOUT OP LONG LAKE. 



" I see the bright trout springing 



Where the wave is dark, yet clear, 

 And a myriad flies are winging, 



As if to tempt him near. 

 With the lucid waters blending, 



The willow shade yet floats, 

 From beneath whose quiet bending 



I used to launch my boats. " 



This is the richest and most beautiful specimen of lake 

 trout known in the State of New York. In outline it resem- 

 bles the brook trout which have access to marine feeding- 

 grounds, except in the tail, which is forked. In color it is a 

 reddish-brown on the back, mellowing to a pink at the sides, 

 and a belly of white with pink tinge. The whole of its sur- 

 face, except its head and belly, is thickly dotted with orange 

 specks about the size of pigeon-shot. Like the trout of all 



