CHAPTER V 



Where to Get Them 

 GENERAL DISTRIBUTION— SALMON 



Nearly all fresh-water game fish are abundant 

 in the cold or temperate regions, salmon and 

 trout being more plentiful in waters chilled by 

 winter's cold and snow. Bass, especially the 

 large-mouthed, will thrive in warmer climates, 

 where the waters are never frozen. Some species 

 of trout and charr inhabit waters of compara- 

 tively warm regions, as in lower California, but, 

 the rivers are cooled by snow water from the 

 high mountainous sections whence the rivers flow. 



Both the mascalonge and pike flourish and at- 

 tain a larger size in the colder waters of the 

 North, though the pickerel will exist in waters 



r^. ^ .. ,. of a much higher temperature; so 



Distribution , , , '^ _ , .' p . , i 



that the best game fashmg ot mland 



waters may be placed in about the latitude of 

 lower New York, thence Northward to near the 

 arctic circle. 



To get good fishing for the true Atlantic Salmon 

 the angler now must needs go to the British pos- 

 sessions in North America. Only in a few scat- 

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