EAINBOW TEOUT AND ITS C O U S I ]Sr S 



government stocks all the streams repeatedly. In 1911 eleven 

 million trout fry were released, and in 1912 fourteen Tnillioa 

 were placed in the streams for the pleasure of fly fishermen. 



Trout are now so easily transported that the Eainbow in 

 particular has been carried to many lands from its home in Cali- 

 fornia. It is at home in the Eio San Gabriel, near Pasadena, Cali- 

 fornia, and in all the mountain streams running up to an altitude 

 of two thousand or more feet, this in latitude thirty-two degrees, 

 being about that of Cairo, Africa. Here it rarely sees ice or snow,. 

 though the winter water is to some extent from the miniature 

 glaciers and snowbanks of Mount San Antonio, and in the spring- 

 the water is directly from the snow, though by the time it reaches, 

 an altitude of two thousand feet it is more or less warm. In 

 Klamath the best fishing for rainbows that I had in September^ 

 1912, was in the lakes and rivers at four thousand seven hundred 

 feet, and up the Williamson, where the altitude was five thousand 

 feet ; I mention this to show that the rainbow is ubiquitous- 

 He enjoys life at the sea level or a mile above it, in a hot 

 or a cold chmate, as at Klamath the lake and rivers are all frozen 

 over in winter, while the Eio San Gabriel in Los Angeles county 

 is in a semi-tropic country. 



This suggests that the rainbow should thrive in England. In 

 his All Around Angler, 'John Bickerdyke,' the distinguished 

 author and authority on British angling, states that the Americaa 

 rainbow has ' become exceedingly popular ' in England. He 

 expresses a doubt as to whether it will remain in English rivers. la 

 America the fish is at its best in sluggish rivers which flow into^ 

 lakes, as the little rivers which flow into Klamath Lake. I am 

 incUned to believe that it prefers rivers to lakes. Doubtless, 

 certain numbers wOl go down to the sea, but here there is the com- 

 pensation, that the rainbow wQl become a silvery sea-trout,, 

 the steelhead, a splendid game that wfll be taken, and doubtless, 

 is caught now, at the mouths of European rivers. Our author 

 has taken the rainbow in the preserves of Sir Thomas Wardle on 

 the borders of StafEordshire and at Blagdon in a Surrey lake. 



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