250 The Trouts of America 



and fighting literally to the death. They made 

 on my rod in the wild waters of the state of 

 Washington as sturdy a fight as the steelhead, 

 and a greater one than the cut-throat or the 

 Montana grayling, coming frequently into the 

 air and making longer and stronger surges 

 than the brook beauty of our Eastern mountain 

 streams. 



I caught the rainbow on similar flies as those 

 that lure the black-spotted trouts and the Mon- 

 tana grayling. They were apparently more indif- 

 ferent to shades of color and form of dressings 

 than either of the last two fishes named, and 

 were equally numerous and eager for the feathers 

 in all conditions of the stream the quiet pools, 

 the gentle rifts or rushing rapids, the long 

 stretches of either still or foaming reaches ; the 

 eddies below outjutting rocks, or the swift and 

 narrow waters between them, all yielded " the red- 

 sides," as they are often called on the Pacific 

 slope. It was also noted that they were much 

 quicker than other trouts in their movements, 

 particularly in seeking the shelter of shelving 

 rocks, reminding the angler, when first hooked, 

 somewhat of the mangrove snapper of the Gulf 

 waters, but under the restraining line they come 



