CHAPTER V 



SALMON-TROUTS CONTINUED THE RAINBOW SERIES 



RAINBOW OR COAST RANGE TROUT BROOK 

 TROUT OF WESTERN OREGON McCLOUD RIVER 

 (CALIFORNIA) RAINBOW KERN RIVER TROUT 

 NO-SHEE TROUT GOLDEN TROUT OF MT. WHIT- 

 NEY (CALIFORNIA) BROWN OR GERMAN TROUT 



LOCK LEVEN TROUT 



FOLLOWING the latest approved system of grada- 

 tion in classification of the salmon-trouts, we now 

 reach the rainbow series, which, in my opinion, 

 are the typical game fishes of the salmon family 

 with the exception possibly of the Atlantic sea- 

 salmon and the wannanish or ouananiche of the 

 Lake St. John region of Quebec ; and many an- 

 glers believe that " inch for inch and pound for 

 pound " the rainbow is their equal in fighting qual- 

 ities when found in streams of moderate size and 

 depth like the Au Sable rivers of Michigan and 

 the waters of Essex County, New York. The 

 rainbow is, without doubt, one of the most mus- 

 cular and resourceful of fishes for its size, rising 

 freely to the artificial fly, leaping on a slack line, 



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