CHAPTER V. 



OF THE LAKE TROUT. 



(SALMO CONFINIS.) 



THIS species of Trout is entirely distinct from that known as 

 the Mackinaw Trout or Mackinaw Salmon ; he is not so much 

 of a game fish, neither is he so tasteful to the palate as the 

 former description. The following, taken from Dr. Dekay's 

 New York Fauna, will enable our friends to make the proper 

 distinction between the two : 



" CHAR \CTERISTICS : Blackish, with numerous gray spots. 

 Body robust, comparatively short in proportion to its depth. 

 Caudal fin, with a sinuous margin. Length two to four feet. 



" It occurs in most of the northern lakes of this state ;* and 

 I have noticed it in Silver Lake, Pennsylvania, adjacent to 

 Broome county, which is, as far as I know, its southernmost 

 limits. The average weight is from eight to ten pounds, but I 

 have heard fishermen speak of its weighing thirty pounds, and 

 even more. Some idea ef their abundance may be formed 

 from the fact that a single fisherman has been known to cap- 

 ture, on Paskungameh or Long Lake, five hundred weight in 

 the course of one week." 



They are taken with stout lines and tackle similar to that 

 used for the Mackinaw Trout ; the deepest holes in the deepest 



* New York. 



