EAINBOW TEOUT AND ITS COUSINS 



without mention of the char-like giant of the Yukon and its 

 tributaries ; in Alaska, the great lake trout, Cristivomer namay- 

 eusJi, which attains a weight of eighty pounds, truly the king of 

 the trouts. For such game the nine-ounce rod and nine- thread line 

 of the Tuna Club could be commended. This fish is the common 

 lake trout of New York, New England, Wisconsin, and Montana. 

 In a Vermont lake near the Canada line it is called ' lunge ' — 

 a misnomer. 



The angler who is following the Pacific Coast streams will 

 do well to begin at the San Gabriel in Southern California, in 

 April or May, to see the fish and canons of the Sierra Madre, 

 visiting Eincon and Follows ; then the streams in the county of 

 San Buenaventura, the Santa Ynez for steelheads ; then cross 

 the great San Joaquin Valley to the Kern Eiver, and enter the 

 wonderland of the High Sierras, and see the Golden trout ; then 

 to the Yosemite to fish the sylvan glades of the Merced, which 

 comes tumbling down into the vaUey. From here one can move to 

 Tahoe ; then down the Truckee to Monterey for salmon in the 

 sea. Next, to the little rivers near Santa Cruz, not forgetting the 

 American Eiver and the Eussian further north and the Klamath. 

 Now go up the Sacramento to the McCleod for cut-throats, Feather 

 Eiver for its rainbows, and so on to Shasta and Klamath Lake 

 and the innumerable rivers and lakes of the north, not omitting 

 lakes Chelan and Crescent in Washington and the Yellowstone. 



This Park is where trout can be hooked in cold water, played 

 and led into hot water and boiled without taking it from the 

 hook. This is the stock fish story of Yellowstone Park, and very 

 easy of demonstration in streams where a trout has been seen 

 to rise to a fly, dashing up from deep cold water into a surface 

 layer of scalding fluid from one of the many springs. 



Some of the most remarkable trout streams in America are 

 found in Colorado, where the wild and rugged scenery adds to the, 

 charm. The gamefish are grayling, rainbow trout, land-locked 

 salmon from Maine, and eastern brook trout which have been 

 introduced and are propagated by many hatcheries. I shall 



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