THE GAME FISHES OF THE WOELD 



charr, 8. arcturus, common in Lake Victoria in latitude eighty- 

 two degrees. Its back is green, the belly silver with reddish 

 tints. In Greenland there is another charr, S. stagnalis, a ralu- 

 able fish that attains a length of two feet. In the ocean it is 

 gleaming silver with all the beauties of a steelhead ; but in the 

 rivers it is dark green, its sides ornamented with pale pink 

 spots. Its lower fins are a vivid pink, the upper ones green, 

 while over the sides and back are irregular green streaks. 



In America there are innumerable forest regions, wild and 

 beautiful, famed for their lakes, rivers and streams, abounding in 

 charrs, so near New York or the great cities that they can be 

 reached with ease and celerity. An angler can leave New York 

 in the morning and find himself in the heart of the Adirondacks 

 at night, these splendid mountains being but eight hours distant. 

 The mountains range from the Canada line, or near it, south to 

 the Mohawk river, or one hundred and twenty miles, and from 

 the shores of lakes George and Champlain, west, eighty miles, 

 affording the angler and sportsman a splendid park of ten thou- 

 sand square miles in which are five parallel ranges of mountains, 

 many of the peaks being from thirty-five hundred to five thousand 

 feet in height. This region abounds in charming lakes stocked 

 with various varieties of trout, where I have fished when nearly 

 the entire region was a virgin wilderness. Here are over one 

 thousand lakes of aU sizes up to twenty square nules. Some 

 of the most famous are Schroon, ' Tear of the Clouds ' Lake, in 

 which rises the Hudson, Eaquette, Saranac, Ausable, Placid, 

 St. Eegis, Blue Mountain, Long, Eoimd, Tupper, Loon, Eainbow, 

 and many more lakes, rivers and brooks. No more delightful 

 memories are recalled than when casting a fly in some of these 

 lakes, or crossing the carries, my guide with canoe on his back, 

 to stop to watch a bear or deer. I witnessed the first 

 tragedy on one of these lakes — ^the launching of a power boat, 

 considered a crime, deep dyed, a desecration. 



In the fine Eangeley Lakes of Maine is found an interesting 

 charr, Salvelintis oquassa. The lakes are famous in America, and 

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