GENERAL EEMARKS. 13 



trout is in our eastern brooks — the principal source 

 of the angler's enjoyment. 



The rivers that empty into Hudson's Bay are 

 ascended by the migratory salmon, but from their 

 fieculiar character do not furnish fly-fishing except 

 for trout. The latter are found in Lake Superior 

 .and the streams that empty into it, in the tribu- 

 taries of the Upper Mississippi, and in the brooks of 

 the Alleghany and Rocky Mountains ; but are not 

 generally distributed through the weedy streams of 

 the Western States. 



The flat expanse of Ohio is not favorable to the 

 existence of that lover of the noisy brook and tum- 

 bling torrent ; and streams flowing through marl 

 deposits are supposed not to furnish proper food ; so 

 that the beauty that we in our eastern homes entice 

 from every stream or brooklet from Maine to Penn- 

 sylvania, is found rarely, if at all, in Illinois, Indiana, 

 Ohio, western Kentucky, and southern Wisconsin ; 

 but in the cool depths of Lake Superior and its 

 amber-hued tributaries he absolutely swarms. 



In the Upper Mississippi there are black bass and 

 mascallonge; in the brooks that, rising amid the 

 hills of that region, swell its current, there are trout ; 

 in neighboring lakes black bass and perch abound ; 

 among the Rocky Mountains are found several spe- 

 cies of trout ; and in the waters of Oregon and Cali- 

 fornia salmon are plentiful. 



Although the largest trout in the United States 

 are taken in Maine, in the Eangeley region, the 

 greatest number and the most vigorous are found in 



