246 The Trouts of America 



the Kamloops trout when restrained by the rod, 

 but there is no question as to its game qualities, 

 for its environment, pedigree, and structure indi- 

 cate the possession of these traits ; moreover, 

 being landlocked and seldom growing beyond 

 sixteen or seventeen inches in length, the 

 average weight not exceeding a pound, and 

 spawning in the small confluents of the lakes of 

 its habitat, no doubt can exist as to its rising 

 well to the surface-fly and fighting bravely for 

 freedom. 



Within a comparatively few years, Admiral 

 L. A. Beardslee, U.S.N., an ardent angler and 

 close observer, while stationed in command of the 

 fleet at Port Angeles, Washington, found two 

 new species of salmon-trouts, each of the steel- 

 head type. Both of these fish were living in 

 Crescent Lake, Washington, and one, the blue- 

 back trout (Salmo gairdneri beardsleei}, was 

 caught in deep water, from thirty to fifty feet, 

 and Admiral Beardslee reports that when landed 

 it was found "puffed up with air." They fight 

 hard until brought to the surface, when they 

 give up at once and are easily netted or gaffed. 

 They have not been as yet taken with artificial 

 flies, the prevailing lure being a large spoon, 



