ii2 THE FINE ART OF FISHING 



"The pike has the cheeks entirely scaly, but only the 

 upper part of the gill-cover, the lower half being naked; 

 it has from fourteen to sixteen branchiostegal rays; its 

 coloration is a bluish or greenish gray, with elon- 

 gated or bean-shaped spots covering the sides, which 

 are always of a lighter hue than the ground color. 



"The Eastern or reticulated pickerel has both the 

 cheeks and gill-covers entirely covered with scales; it 

 has from fourteen to sixteen branchiostegal rays; its 

 coloration is shades of green, with sides of golden lus- 

 ter, and marked with dark reticulations, mostly hori- 

 zontal. It is rarely or never found west of the Alle- 

 ghanies." 



The Ouananiche and Land-locked Salmon 



The Atlantic salmon, Salmo solar, has two land- 

 locked relatives, the "land-locked salmon" proper, 

 Salmo sebago f and the ouananiche, Salmo ouananiche. 

 Many experienced anglers believe that there is no 

 essential difference between the Sebago salmon and the 

 ouananiche, or between these two and the sea salmon. 

 However this may be and the authorities, Jordan and 

 Evermann, who some years ago thus classified them 

 ("for the present") have not as yet published a con- 

 trary opinion it is not of extreme importance to the 

 angler; the fact remains that both the land-locked sal- 

 mon and the ouananiche are, as game fishes, in the very 

 first flight. 



The land-locked salmon is found in many of the 

 lakes of Maine and by fish cultural operations its 

 range is constantly increasing. It was originally de- 



