Waha Lake Trout 



Waha Lake Trout 



Salmo bouvieri (Bendire) 



This curious and interesting trout is known only from Waha 

 Lake, Idaho, a small mountain lake without any present surface 

 outlet. 



These trout reach a weight of 3 pounds though examples of 

 that size are not often seen. The usual size is 6 to 7 inches. 

 They do not take the fly well until the middle of the summer, 

 as the water of Waha Lake is uncommonly cold. Then they 

 rise readily and are as game as most lake trout. The food- 

 quality of this trout is said to be unsurpassed. Professor J. M. 

 Aldrich, of Moscow, Idaho, who has had much experience with 

 the Waha trout, speaks in the highest praise as to its delicacy 

 and delicious flavour. 



Head 4; depth 4|: eye 4; D. 10; A. 1 1 ; Br. 12; scales 173; 

 maxillary 2\. Similar to typical Salmo clarkii, but with dark 

 spots only on the dorsal, caudal and adipose fins, and on the 

 caudal peduncle behind front of anal, where the spots are very 

 profuse, smaller than the pupil; anterior regions dusky-bluish, not 

 silvery; red blotch on throat very conspicuous; head shorter and 

 deeper than in the typical cut-throat trout, the snout shorter and 

 blunter, not longer than the eye; opercle and preopercle less convex; 

 caudal moderately forked. 



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