228 TROUT AND SALMON 



in its haunts. The skill required in fly-fishing is enough to 

 tempt any man who has ever felt the electricity with which 

 every good fly-rod is charged; and it is no wonder that men 

 love to fish for this very beautiful fish in the most charming 

 of all sylvan situations. 



The Brook Trout was once a habitant of the northeastern 

 United States, northward of a line drawn from New Jersey to 

 Minnesota, into Labrador, Canada and Manitoba; but to-day 

 where is it? Ask the "fish-hog" who spares no Trout that is 

 big enough to lift from a platter. Ask 4*he market fishers, 

 who fish and fish to supply hotels and restaurants, in season 

 and out of season. 



In its wild state this fish is doomed to disappear at an 

 early date. We have now in this country a large and rapidly 

 increasing element the members of which have come to us to 

 slay and eat. To them, the preservation of wild life to look 

 at seems like childish folly. These, and others like-minded, 

 are raking our trout-streams with fine-toothed combs, and 

 mean that nothing larger than a trout-egg shall escape. And 

 the end will be that in a very few years the wild Brook Trout 

 will be as nearly extinct as the wild buffalo. 



THE SALMON GROUP 



The salmon were made for the millions. The Si wash 

 Indian eats them fresh in summer, dries them, and later on 

 freezes them, for himself and his dogs in winter. The epi- 

 cure pays for having the fresh fish shipped in ice to his table, 

 wherever that table may happen to be. In mid-ocean the 

 great American canned salmon is often the best and only fish 



