POPULAR FRESH-WATER FISHES 17 



Trout, Lake (Mucqua, Bear Trout, etc.): 

 Caught in deep water on medium tackle and 

 small-fish bait on the south shore of Lake 

 Superior. Closely resembles the Siscowet 

 Lake Trout of the same lake, if it is not, as 

 many think, merely a local variety of the 

 same form. 



Trout, Lake (Winnipiseogee Trout) : Caught 

 on medium tackle and small-fish bait in Lake 

 Winnipiseogee and supposedly in Lake 

 George. 



Trout, Lake (Mackinaw Trout, Namaycush, 

 Lake Salmon, Salmon Trout, etc.): Caught 

 with medium tackle on the troll and with 

 minnow bait in deep water in the chain of 

 Great Lakes from Superior to Ontario, also in 

 Lake Champlain, New York, and other lakes 

 of the United States and British America, oc- 

 curring also to the northeastward, in Macki- 

 naw River and in the Knowall River, Alaska. 

 Is known as Mackinaw Trout in Lakes Huron, 

 Michigan, and Superior, and as Lake Salmon 

 and Salmon Trout in the lakes of northern 

 New York. Is said to attain a weight of 

 nin ty pounds, and a length of six feet. 



Trout, Malma (Bull Trout, Speckled Trout, 

 Lake Trout, Red-spotted Trout, Salmon 

 Trout, Dolly Varden Trout, Chewagh, etc.): 

 Caught on Brook Trout tackle in fresh water 

 and Black Bass tackle in the ocean. Occurs in 

 northern California, west of the Cascade 

 Range, throughout the Aleutian Islands, and 

 northward to Colville River in Alaska, and is 

 not unknown at Behring Island, and Plover 

 Bay, Siberia. Taken in the sea it is called 

 Salmon Trout; in the lakes it is called by all 

 the names apprenticized above. In salt- 

 water it feeds upon shrimp, smelt, young 

 trout, sand lance, anchovy, herring, etc. ; in 

 fresh water, small fish, worms, etc. Weighs up 

 to fourteen pounds in the ocean; averages 

 smaller in the lakes. 



Trout, Oquassa (Blue Back Trout) : Caught 

 on Brook Trout tackle in the lakes of western 

 Maine, New York, and New Hampshire. At- 

 tains a length of ten inches. 



