Heavyweight Fighter 



design by Charles Harper 



THE RAINBOW is the heavyweight of the trout family and a 

 leaping bronco on the end of a wet line. He's a Westerner, 

 but transplanting has introduced his iridescent coat and bril- 

 liant side band of color to most of the United States. His cousin, 

 the steelhead, goes to sea, grows silvery and large, and returns 

 to fresh water to spawn and provide outsize sport for fishermen. 

 Rainbows run up to 8 pounds in streams and fresh-water lakes, 

 but steelhead may reach 40 pounds of untamable fury. The 

 Kamloops is another outsize rainbow, found in British Columbia 

 and Idaho. 



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