A Rainbow in the Sierra Madre 95 



Tracing it up, it winds through San Fernando Valley 

 and merges into the Tejunga, its main source of supply, 

 which with the Santa Clara River in the upper Soledad 

 Canon often provides the angler with fair sport. 



Many of these streams that sink into the sand in 

 places, as the Los Angeles River in the San Fernando 

 Valley, and the Arroyo Seco, and seep along beneath 

 the surface for miles, to appear again, are sources of 

 constant wonder to the angler who knows only Eastern 

 brooks that always hold their own in the open, and flow 

 through fields of nodding flowers ; but the California 

 streams reach the sea at times in winter, though during 

 the summer and fishing season they are often land- 

 locked by sandy wastes. 



The rainbow trout is indigenous to the California 

 Coast Range canon streams, and ranges from the Klam- 

 ath down to about the Missions of San Juan Capistrano 

 or San Luis Rey, and varies much in colour in different 

 localities. 



I have seen one from the Arroyo Seco upper pool 

 that was a light olive-green, covered regularly from 

 head to tail with small round black spots. Another 

 trout taken in the San Gabriel was blue and had 

 splashes of red upon the sides ; the belly of pearl, with 

 faint spots. The large fish in the streams of Santa 

 Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, and San Diego now 

 range from one to two and three pounds when sea run ; 

 but Sage gives the maximum weight of Williamson 

 River trout as thirteen pounds, and Mr. W. H. Glass 



