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twenty the first day; there was trout for break- 

 fast, dinner, and supper, and he hung on two 

 weeks and never paid a cent. He was either a 

 great fisherman, or running in big luck. This 

 is good ground right here," added the boatman, 

 " and I reckon you have one." 



Something had happened, and in came the 

 long line and out of the depths rose a trout of 

 the kind that has made the region famous to 

 anglers, and disciples of Lucullus, a twenty- 

 pounder, a fish that has the combined flavor of 

 a brook trout and a salmon, and the delicate 

 color of the latter. How large these giants grow 

 it is difficult to say, but there is a legend of a 

 forty-pounder, which one can well accept when 

 contemplating the real thirty-one-pounder shown 

 in the photograph; a veritable nightmare of a 

 trout that few people would believe existed un- 

 less they had taken it, and then there would be 

 a suspicion or a doubt the next day. 



This is the trout of Henshaw (Salmo hen- 

 sliuici), a near cousin to the salmon, which ex- 

 plains the delicate salmon flavor so appreciated 

 by epicures. This big trout, which appears to 

 find its ponderous growth in the great depths 

 of the lake, is a descendant of the cut-throat, so 

 called from the red dash just below the under 

 jaw; a fish that now is widely distributed over 

 the Western country. 



One of the charms of the Tahoe country is 



