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which is Germanized latin for "little salmon." A name 

 is not a little thing, even if a rose by any other name 

 would smell as sweet. We should have only one name 

 for one fish, but with our great wealth of fishes I know 

 of but three which bear the same name from Maine to 

 California and from Minnesota to Texas, and those are 

 the eel, the shad and the sturgeon. 



There is a fish in England known as a salmon-trout. 

 There is no fish in America of that species and conse- 

 quently none entitled to the name. The lake trout is 

 miscalled "salmon trout" in the Adirondacks, and, 

 worse yet, the last part of the name is dropped and the 

 fish is called "salmon." This is almost as much of a 

 barbarism as applying the name "salmon" to the pike- 

 perch in the Susquehanna, and "trout" to the black bass 

 in the South. 



The lake trout, properly so called, is known as 

 "lunge," "togue," and perhaps by other names in New 

 England, from Maine to Connecticut, but those names 

 will die out in time. What is here said of trout breed- 

 ing will be applicable for brook trout, rainbow and 

 brown trout, lake trout and salmon. The other Salmon- 

 ides, whitefish, smelts, etc., will be treated of under the 

 proper headings. 



HOW NATURE DOES IT. 



As soon as the waters begin to feel the first chill of au- 

 tumn some trout leave the deeper waters and start up 

 stream to find the gravel beds. Usually the males are 

 at the spawning place a week or more in advance of the 

 females, for pairing has not yet taken place. Something 

 tells the young trout of last spring's hatch, which will 



