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REPORT 01 SI IE BOARD OP FISH COMMISSIONERS. 



The Tahoe trout usually weighs, when mature, two or three pounds, 

 but in the depths of Lake Tahoe huge specimens weighing from seven 

 to twenty-eight pounds have been sometimes taken. 



Those large trout called the Silver trout of Lake Tahoe (Salmo 

 tahot nsis) are supposed to spawn in the lake, and thus to form a sub- 



TAHOE TROUT— Salmo henshawi Gill and Jordan. 



species more or less' distinct from those which spawn in the brooks. 

 As a food or as a game fish, the Tahoe trout is scarcely different from 

 the ordinary Cut-throat of the Columbia. 



CRESCENT TROUT. 



Of the many long-headed trout more or less allied to Salmo clarkii, 

 two are especially interesting to the angler, the Crescent trout and the 

 Beardslee trout. Both are found only in the deep glacial lake in 

 Clallam County, Washington, known as Crescent Lake. The Crescent 



CRESCENT TROUT— Salmo crescentis. 



trout is a fine game fish, reaching a weight of eight to ten pounds. 

 It is very deep steel-blue in color, with fine specks and without red at 

 the throat. The scales are as small as those of the Steelhead, but the 

 head is not short. 



