THE TALE OF THE FISHES 



his distinctive coloring. I fished this loch in June, 1 886, 

 paying $7.50 a day for the privilege, and took num- 

 bers of this trout which is one of the gamest in the 

 world. In my opinion, it is a landlocked sea trout, and 

 I am supported in this belief by such authorities as Dr. 

 Parnell, Yarrel, Sir John Richardson, Dr. GUnther, 

 and my friend Maxwell Scott of Abbottsford. I 

 bought 30,000 eyed ova at Howietoun and brought 

 them over on a Cunard steamer, hatched the survivors 

 of the voyage, and planted 20,000 in my stream at 

 Lake Sunapee. One was subsequently caught that 

 weighed 1 lbs. ; but as these silvery fish with black 

 spots and 1 1 rays to the anal fin, are practically indis- 

 tinguishable from ouananiche with which the lake is 

 stocked, the success of the plant can not be determined. 



So near akin to the Loch Leven trout that some 

 observers have declared both to be variations of the 

 same species is the brown or yellow trout of Europe, 

 which I am noticing here because it has been so largely 

 introduced into the streams of the Eastern United 

 States. But from the view point of my investigations 

 it is not to be confounded with the silver clipper-built 

 land-locked beauty of Loch Leven, with black crosses 



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