BROOK TROUT 



What was supposed to have been a record fish, at 

 the time, was assigned the place ot honor in the de- 

 partment of Fish and Fisheries at the Centennial Ex- 

 hibition in Philadelphia. After it had been some time 



dead it turned the scales at ten pounds. Professor 

 Spencer F. Baird and Professor Agassiz are both said 

 to have given it as their opinion that when freshly 

 taken this trout weighed at least eleven and a half 

 pounds. It measured thirty inches in length and 

 eighteen in circumference, and was caught in October, 



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