The Trout 



As a food fish it excels all of the trout Remarkable 



species as might be surmised. In fresh 

 water lakes it should grow to eight or ten 

 pounds. Near Virginia City, Montana, is 

 located Axolotl Lake, so named from being 

 inhabited by a species of axolotl, but it con- 

 tained no fish of any kind until stocked with 

 a few thousand steelhead trout fingerlings 

 from the Bozeman Fisheries Station, in 

 1902. In September, 1907, two of my 

 friends, while trolling from a canvas boat 

 on this lake, caught eleven trout weighing 

 in the aggregate seventy pounds, the largest 

 weighing thirteen pounds, an extraordinary 

 weight for a five-year-old trout. But this 

 is easily explained when it is considered 

 that the trout had been feasting for sev- 

 eral years on such nutritious diet as these 

 curious amphibians afforded, and in great 

 abundance, but which now are said to be 

 scarce. 



The rainbow trout has also been intro- The Rainbow 

 duced to Eastern waters by the United 

 States Bureau of Fisheries, and seems to be 

 well adapted to ponds of considerable ex- 

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