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in the water five days before it is lifted. As the net comes 

 up around the steam windlass forward, it is passed aft and 

 immediately reset by being paid out over the stern by two 

 members of the crew. The nets are about eight feet wide, 

 and the mesh is four and half inches. 



"The largest Lake Trout I observed on the Currie was 

 2 feet 10 inches long, and its weight was 21 pounds. The 

 average length of the fishes taken during my inspection was 

 less than 2 feet." (Charles H. Townsend.) 



The Brook Trout, or Speckled Trout, and its group. — 

 Concerning this beautiful and high-spirited creature so much 

 has been written it would now seem that there is nothing 

 untold. But this is a very wide country; and I ween that 

 in the real West there may be a million of good citizens who 

 are strangers yet to Sal-ve-li'nus fon-ti-nal'is. 



After all has been said, I think it must be conceded that 

 this is the most beautiful of all our game fishes. Its back 

 and dorsal fins are elegantly marbled, its sides have about 

 fifteen or twenty crimson and black spots, and its pectoral, 

 ventral and anal fins are bright crimson, edged in front 

 with white. Its general ground-color down to the latitude 

 of the pectoral fin is dark olive, below that comes sunsel 

 pink and underneath all is the silver white of the belly. 



Along with its beauty, agility and general gameness, this 

 fish makes its home in the most picturesque and beautiful 

 streams its range affords. Its ideal haunt is a deep,- clear 

 pool at the foot of a picturesque rush of water over mossy 

 bowlders. Usually this forest jewel is delightfully set in 

 the foliage of overhanging birches, beeches and maples, and 



