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Hy, leaps, runs, and plays more vigorously than a grilse. The 
fish is gray on its back and sides, interspersed with white 
scales, all of which are small, but brilliant. Epicures regard 
the winninish as a higher luxury than either the brook trout 
or salmon, Its head resembles the trout, but the mouth is 
larger, and equally tough for holding a hook. The meat is 
pink-colored. It takes either the minnow or the tly gener- 
ously. Fish-culturists might with advantage tum the at- 
tention to the winninish and the white trout. 
Lake Trour or Mooseurap Laxe.—This trout is unlike 
any other in the American waters. It is round in body, and 
resembles the winninish in large first dorsal and large tail. 
Its meat is straw-colored, and on each side below the gills are 
five or six dark spots the size of peas, and like those on the 
shad. It is clad in small scales, dark on the back, orange 
sides, and beily like the dorée or common river pickerei.  Be- 
ing so excellent a dinner-fish, it is surprising that the markets 
of Maine continue to monopolize it to the exclusion of epi- 
cures in other states. It is caught by the hand-line, as other 
lake trout. 
RED TROUT OF LONG LAKE, 
“*T see the bright trout springing 
Where the wave is dark, yet clear, 
And a myriad flies are winging, 
As if to tempt him near. 
With the lucid waters blending, 
The willow shade yet floats, 
From beneath whose quiet bending 
I used to launch my boats.” 
This is the richest and most beautiful specimen of lake 
trout known in the State of New York. Jn outline it resem: 
bles the brook trout which have access to marine feedine- 
grounds, except in the tail, which is forked. In color it is a 
reddish-brown ou the back, melowing to a pink at the sides, 
and vw belly of white with pink tinge. The whole of its sur 
face, except its head and belly, is thickly dotted with orange 
specks about the size of pigeon-shot. Like the trout of all 
