Popular Frcsh=Water Game Fish 



shiner or carp; the larger the bait the larger the 

 fish caught. 



We now come to the most beloved of all charrs, 

 the native brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis), 

 the objective quarry for the skilled and the tyro 

 in their mountain outings. Its structure is formed 

 and fitted for its wild life in the tumultuous moun- 

 tain brooks, shaped to breast the rushing rapids 

 wherein it poises, self-contained in body, and, 

 apparently, in spirit. It will leap over and some- 

 times swim up the centre of three feet of water 

 of a dam over which a downpour twelve or more 

 inches in volume is ceaselessly passing; or it can 

 be seen in a quiet pool above the dam disporting, 

 and leaping leisurely and lazily from the water. 

 No other fish known to anglers possesses habits so 

 free from grossness as the brook trout of the East. 

 Its primary need is oxygen, and it seeks it in the 

 upper reaches of strongly aerated mountain 

 streams. There cast a fly, and when hooked, the 

 trout seems to know every rift, nook, rooted hold 

 of its rock-ribbed environment. In such streams, 

 the trout are compelled to forage vigorously and 

 industriously for food, and the wear and tear of 

 vitality is constantly at work on the muscles; it 

 finds little rest where no deep pools abound to 

 which the fish can retire for security, repose, and 

 digestion. Very different is the life in deep-pool 

 lakes; there they feed mostly at the bottom, com- 

 ing to the shallows and surface at sundown. 



The Dolly Varden trout (Salvelinus parkei), 

 also known as the bull trout, is widely distributed 

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