34 FISHING WITH THE FLY. 



ings, that I had. five species at the least, but Bean ruth- 

 lessly cut the number down to three, viz. : 



Salvelina Malma, or Spectabilis, or Bairdii. 



Salmo Gardneri, and 



Salmo Purpuratus, or Clark's trout. 

 . The first named, called commonly by us the salmon 

 trout, was abundant in all of the streams, from about 

 middle of June until middle of September, evidently 

 timing their arrival and departure by the movements of 

 the salmon, upon whose eggs they live. I have noted, 

 on June 1st, "No salmon trout yet in any of the 

 streams. Several fine, large ones captured by the In- 

 dians in nets set in sea." Ten days after, the streams 

 were full of them, and in the earlier part of the interim 

 many would run into the pools of the lower parts with 

 the flooding tide, and out again on the ebb. 



When they left us in September, it is probable that 

 they migrated south, for in a letter to Forest and 

 Stream, dated Portland, Oregon, September 28, a cor- 

 respondent states that, in that month, "there begins to 

 appear in the streams near the Columbia river, a trout," 

 whose description tallies exactly with that of the spec- 

 ial His, except that the correspondent speaks of their 

 affording ^e sport with the fly ; this the trout while in 

 Alaska fails to do. At first, the spectaUUs affect the 

 rapids, but after a few days seek the deep pools, where 

 they gather in great numbers, and bite ravenously on 

 hooks covered with spawn and sunk to the bottom. 

 Occasionally, when spawn was out, we used a bit of fresh 



