BAINBOW TEOTJT A:SI) ITS COUSINS 



and sixty to one hundred and seventy in line, and there is a band 

 of small teeth on the hyoid bone at the base of the tongue, not 

 found in the S. irideus, in which the teeth are only on the 

 run of the tongue. The cut-throat splash is the sign manual of 

 the Sioux Indians. When angling in Wyoming, Montana, Utah, 

 Idaho, British Columbia, Puget Sound, one is liable to find that 

 he has landed a cut-throat of five or six pounds, and if very lucky 

 at Lake Tahoe, where the fish has been introduced, the same 

 may tip the scales at thirty pounds. 



Lake Tahoe in California, on the summit of the Sierra IfTevada, 

 a short ride from San Francisco, has been stocked with several 

 varieties of trout and is the natural home of others. Here is 

 taken the giant Tahoe trout {Salmo hensJiawi) with its delicious 

 flavour of salmon. Tahoe is deep, cold and beautiful, and the 

 trout are large, weU-fed, and noble specimens. It is easily 

 recognized by the spots scattered over its entire surface. Another 

 variety from the depths of this wonderful lake is Salmo henshawi 

 tdhoensis ; a monster, which breeds in the depths of the lake 

 and is taken with steel lines and huge reels. I have already 

 referred to the royal silver trout of this lake, discovered to science 

 by Professor Snyder. 



Tahoe, next to Crater Lake, is the most remarkable home of 

 trout in America. It is a gem in the heart of the Sierras, a mile 

 above the sea, surrounded by lakes and streams which in the 

 summer months afford fine angling for many varieties of trout 

 which have been introduced, several hatcheries being maintained 

 by the State and private parties. ]N"ot far away is the Tosemite 

 and the giant trees, the tallest in the world, according to John 

 Muir, the patron saint of the forests of California. 



In Utah a fine trout is found, Salmo clarJcii virginitis, which 

 attains a large size. Another at the head waters of the Platte and 

 Arkansas rivers, the St. Vrain, and in the streams of Estes 

 Park. This is Salmo clarJcii stomias ; while the variety, Macdonaldi, 

 a fine yellow-finned trout, occurs, to the joy of the high anglers, in 

 Leadville, Colorado. Other hard-fighting trout are Jordan's, 



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