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is rather difficult to find. To one who has had the 

 opportunity and privilege of taking this fish in goodly 

 numbers the dissertations, opinions, disputes, and theo- 

 ries of fishermen who have not enjoyed a close acquaint- 

 ance with Sal mo fario, but are ever ready to discuss 

 the subject, are somewhat amusing. 



To cite a concrete example: Recently a reasonably 

 proficient angler, journeying from one of our larger 

 cities to a trout stream which the writer has fished 

 times almost innumerable, brought home with him a 

 number of strange, outlandish fish all very sizable. The 

 angler stated to an admiring audience of friends that the 

 fish had fought like tigers, that he had had the time of 

 his life, etc., etc. but what were they? Briefly, the 

 fish were imagined to be of every sort except the right 

 one, and some of the guesses were particularly wild 

 and humorous. The fish were simply brown trout. 



It is the purpose of this chapter to state some of the 



facts known to many anglers about the brown trout 



Fontinalis anc ^> ^ wou ld seem, quite unknown to 



vs. many others, possibly to the majority. 



Fario. First, however, the writer would recall 



the somewhat trite fact that comparisons are_ always 



and inevitably odious. Wherefore, one might suggest 



that our native trout be left out of the discussion. For 



some reason unknown to the present writer, anglers 



are prone at the very mention of the brown trout to 



consider the entire question one of comparison between 



the brown and the native, naturally to the detriment of 



the former; fontinalis vs. fario has been argued times 



without number. 



