THE GAME EISHES OE THE WOELD 



One of the most successful flies in my experience is the Kam- 

 loops, named after the steelhead of that name by Dr. Jordan. This 

 trout is a fine game fish, slender, built on fine lines, and affords 

 good sport in the lakes of Kamloops, Okanogan, Kootenai and the 

 lakes and rivers tributary to the Eraser in the upper Columbia 

 Eiver country. It is doubtless a steelhead changed but slightly 

 by its en-vironment. It is a beautiful fish ; a dark rich olive 

 above, -with a silvery band reaching a little below the lateral hue, 

 where it ends suddenly, or merges into a band of a light roseate 

 hue. 



On the back are spots, not larger than pin heads, scattered 

 about, and more abundant near the tail. Like the Beardsley 

 trout, and many others, it is a ' spoon ' trout ; that is, it is large 

 and powerful and its natural food is not a fly, but fish, mice, or 

 any game it can take. It has been taken with a fly, but mostly in 

 trolling. 



The record American steelhead of the Field and Stream com- 

 petition of 1912 weighed fourteen pounds, was three feet long 

 lacking two inches, and had girth of a foot and one-third. It 

 was taken by 0. E. Duffield of Medford, who landed it about 

 twelve miles up the Eogue Eiver near Williams ranch, using a 

 Eogue Eiver gray hackle fly. The second record fish was taken 

 by J. M. Hutcheson of Eureka, CaUfomia, on the Bel Eiver, about 

 twenty-five mfles from the city. It weighed fourteen poxmds 

 and was the same length as the above fish. It was taken with a 

 Eoyal Coachman fly. While Mr. Hutcheson was playing the 

 fourteen-pounder his companion hooked and landed an eleven- 

 poimder. The two anglers landed that afternoon on the Eel 

 ten steelheads ranging from three and one-half pounds to four- 

 teen ; and thirty-five from one-halE pound to one pound. 



Some of these fish leaped five feet, making dashes of fifty or 

 sixty feet as they struck the water on the return. The tackle 

 used was six and seven-eighths ounce Leonard split bamboo rods, 

 Hardy reels and light gut leaders nine feet in length. The Eel 

 Eiver is in Humboldt county, California, and in the month 

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