Favorite Fish and Fishing 



widely separated sections of country these 

 different species may be readily distin- 

 guished by certain characteristics, but in 

 other localities, where they co-exist nat- 

 urally, it is sometimes a difficult matter to 

 distinguish one group from another. At 

 one time, indeed, the rainbow and steelhead 

 were pronounced by competent authority 

 to be the same fish, the steelhead being sup- 

 posed to be the sea-run form of the species. 

 At the present time, however, they are held 

 to be distinct species. 



The Dolly Varden, or bull-trout, belongs 

 to a different genus (Salvelinus), and is 

 related to the brook trout of Eastern 

 waters, having also red spots. While the 

 red-throat trout inhabits both slopes of the 

 Rockies, the others named belonged orig- 

 inally to the Pacific Slope. 



The Red The red-throat trout is the most widely 



distributed of the Western trouts. It inhab- 

 its both slopes of the Rocky Mountains, 

 and, as might be inferred from this exten- 

 sive range, it varies in external appearance 

 more than any of the trout species. There 

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