Beardske Trout 247 



with a heavy sinker attached to the line, the 

 spoon spinning near the bottom of the lake. The 

 Beardslee trout from the description given by 

 Mr. George E. Mitchell of Port Angeles, is cer- 

 tainly a handsome fish. He states : 



" On the back there is a deep, dark blue ultra- 

 marine color of a peculiar transparency, dotted 

 with small round black spots from the size of a 

 pinhead to slightly larger; the two fins on the 

 back are dusky in color, with dots also, but trans- 

 parent; the tail fin is of the same coloration, and 

 the pectoral (breast fins) and belly fins are white 

 and sometimes faintly tinged with a pinkish hue 

 on the edges. Looking at the fish sideways, the 

 scales are iridescent, the red flash predominat- 

 ing. The head has very much the polish of 

 mother-of-pearl around the lower jaws, red and 

 pale blue colors predominating." 



Mr. Mitchell might have added that the pale 

 pink band of the lateral line enhanced the beauty 

 of the coloration of the fish, which has no red 

 slashes under the lower jaw, as prevails usually 

 in the cut-throat species. The most prominent 

 differences in the typical steelhead and the trout 

 of Lake Crescent, independently of that of color- 

 ation, which is pronounced, is in the scales, those 



