THE GAME FISHES OF THE WOELD 



of the brook-trout, but living in the large lakes, they afEect the 

 habit of lake-trout and take to deep water during the greater 

 part of the year. On the approach of the spring season they 

 move in large numbers from Lake Oquassa, from which they 

 take their specific name, to the Kennebago Eiver. The spawning 

 season over, they return to Oquassa Lake, and on the fifteenth 

 of iN'ovember, sooner or later, as the case may be, they go to 

 Lake Moosellokmaguntic, remaining there until the following 

 October. As a game fish they rank far below fontinalis, in 

 which are centered all the elements of a great game fish. 



I can mention only a few of the most beautiful spots for trout 

 fishing in Eastern America, as they are legion. The Alleghanies, 

 Blue Eidge, Green Moimtaias, Cumberland ranges — ^aU abound 

 in streams the home of the charr, Lake George, the rivers, lakes 

 and streams of Western New York along the Erie railroad, the 

 Delaware and its tributaries, the maze of streams in the heart 

 of Pennsylvania, Pike county, the Cheat Eiver in West Virginia, 

 Blackwater, Seneca Creek, Laurel, Gode, Fish and many more, 

 and the beautiful vaUey of the Juniata. In ITorth Carolina 

 there are attractive charr streams — ^the Toe Eiver, Cranberry 

 Creek, Elk, Linville, New Eiver, rising in a region of mountains, 

 as Pisgah, Table mountain. Smoky, Bald, and Cold Mountains. 



From here you may follow the brook trout into Tennessee, 

 and fish the Shenandoah and the Sweetwater branch of the East 

 Tennessee. The streams of the CatskiUs, CatsMU Creek, are 

 charming regions where I have taken the charr among rocks 

 that bristled with the trilobites and crinoid stems of a seashore 

 of a million years ago. The various charrs have been so univer- 

 sally introduced, and are found in such unexpected places, as 

 my taking one when casting for rainbows in Feather Eiver, 

 California, that one is often confused, if not skilled in the science of 

 Ichthyology. I have taken trout which I was positive were 

 fontinalis in the lakes of Canada, fifty or one hundred miles north 

 of Montreal and Quebec, and I am confident there are several 

 species ; but, in all probability, they could be referred to the Lac 

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