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knowing that a great many anglers of more experience 

 than I have had, will not agree with me. Anyway 

 he is a grand fish worthy of all the enthusiasm he 

 arouses in the hearts of his admirers. 



HISTORICAL 



(Salrao irideus) 

 THE RAINBOW TROUT 



When the first Americans went to California they 

 found there an abundance of speckled fishes which they 

 instantly classified as trout as they did all speckled 

 fishes. The rainbow family of salmon trout is di- 

 vided into one species and five sub-species, and as 

 you shall see later, it is one of these sub-species that we 

 are mostly interested in. 



The typical species is a common fish in the moun- 

 tain streams of California. The five sub-species em- 

 brace the following: the brook trout of western Ore- 

 gon (masoni) ; the Kern River trout (gilberti) ; the 

 noshee trout (stonei) ; the golden trout of Mt. Whit- 

 ney (aqua-bonita) ; and, finally, the McCloud River 

 trout (shasta) which is the variety that has been trans- 

 planted so successfully in the waters throughout the 

 United States. This is the fish that most anglers have 

 in mind when they refer to the rainbow trout. 



The Shasta rainbow trout has been transplanted 

 into several western states; Michigan, Wisconsin, Min- 

 nesota ; throughout the east and the Alleghanies ; in the 

 Ozarks and in several Rocky Mountain states and in 



