POPULAR FRESH- WATER FISHES n 



Godbout, the Mingan, the Mosit, and the 

 Natisquan rivers. Is angled for with much 

 the same method as employed in Brook 

 Trout fly-fishing. Leaps from the water 

 when hooked. The tails of swift rapids, the 

 pools between two cascades, and still, deep 

 reaches are likely spots. Flies: Jock Scott, 

 Fairy, Dusty Miller, Fiery Brown, Black 

 Ranger, Dark Admiral, Silver Gray, and 

 Silver Doctor. Weighs up to fifty pounds; 

 averages, in the rivers, fifteen pounds. 



Salmon, Landlocked (Wininnish, Ouinin- 

 nish, Sebago Trout, etc.) : Caught with Sal- 

 mon or medium Brook Trout tackle on the 

 artificial fly in swift currents below dams and 

 rapids. Leaps two and three feet clear of the 

 water when hooked. Is identical with the 

 Atlantic Salmon same species and exhibits 

 no radical differences excepting that it does 

 not go to salt water. Abundant in Maine 

 and Canada. Weighs up to twenty pounds. 

 Averages two to five pounds. Flies: Yellow, 

 yellow and black, gray, red and gray, and 

 brown and black. 



Salmon, Pacific : There are four well-known 

 species of Pacific Salmon the Gorbuscha 

 (Humpback Salmon, Dog Salmon, Holia, Hone, 

 Haddoh, Lost Salmon, etc.), of five pounds, 

 ranging from the Sacramento River to Alaska- 

 Behring Island, and Kamtchatka; the Nerka 

 (Blue-Back Salmon, Red-Fish, Suk-Kegh, Saw, 

 Quai, Suck-Eye, etc.), of fifteen pounds, rang- 

 ing from the Columbia River, the Yukon, and 

 Behring Island to Japan and Kamtchatka; 

 the Kisutch (Silver Salmon, White-Fish, White 

 Salmon, Coho, Skowitz, Hoopid, etc.), of 

 twenty pounds, ranging from Sacramento to 

 Behring Island and Kamtchatka; the Keta 

 (Dog Salmon, Kayko, Musquaw, Qualoch, 

 Nisqually, Ktla-why, Le Kai, etc.) of twelve 

 pounds, ranging from San Francisco north- 

 ward to Hotham Inlet, Alaska, and the Quin- 

 nat (Chouicha, etc.) of one hundred pounds, 

 ascending the large rivers of California, and 

 occurring northward to the Yukon in Alaska. 

 All of these Salmon are taken in nets, and the 

 last species, the largest and most important 

 of the genus, is caught by the angler with me- 

 dium tackle and salmon-roe bait, and, it is 



