Popular Fresh- Water Game Fish 



streams which the latter inhabit. In the waters 

 of the Eastern States the brown trout grows very 

 rapidly, averaging nearly a pound increase in 

 weight in a year. It is in its prime for the rod from 

 the 1st of May to the middle of September, during 

 which period it rises freely to the fly, better in the 

 evening than in the brighter hours of the day, a 

 habit equally prevalent among other trout. I 

 have had them repeatedly leap above the surface 

 on the fly in the swift running waters of the 

 Beaverkill (N. Y.), and have caught them up to 

 three pounds in weight, living in the same pools 

 as the small-mouthed bass; indeed, I have more 

 than once caught a double of brown trout and 

 bass. The flies most luring are a small silver 

 doctor, red spinner, and beaverkill. I have caught 

 many brown trout of large size in deep pools on 

 the worm, phantom minnow, and silver soldier 

 spinner; in fact it will go savagely for pretty nearly 

 any lure. 



Another foreigner is the Lake Leven trout 

 (Salmo levenensis). It grows to the size of four 

 pounds but the average is much less. It is about 

 equal in fighting qualities to our native trout, 

 rising well to the artificial fly. 



The last of the foreign species is the salmon 

 trout (Salmo trutta). Various popular names 

 have been given to this fish, such as guiniad, 

 bull trout, and salmon trout. Its habits are sim- 

 ilar to our own native sea trout. It is migratory, 

 and is found running up streams emptying in the 

 Atlantic. It is a game fighter, but more apt to 

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