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I concede beauty of form and coloration to the 

 trout, far excelling all other fresh-water fishes, 

 there are others equally as good for the table, 

 or even better. When camping by mountain 

 streams, freshly-caught trout, fried to crispness 

 in bacon fat, has a happy combined trout-bacon 

 flavor that is certainly delicious, especially when 

 one has the sauce of a camping appetite to favor 

 it; but under similar conditions the mountain 

 whitefish, in my opinion, is fully as good. Nine 

 out of ten persons who are prejudiced in favor of 

 the trout will declare that it has no scales, thus 

 showing a lack of comparison and observation. 

 In the Rocky Mountain region, where there are 

 so few species of fish for the angler, usually 

 only trout, grayling, and whitefish, the latter 

 should be better appreciated. 



THE CISCO 



(Argyrosomus artedi siscd) 



The cisco, or so-called "lake-herring," was first 

 described by the French ichthyologist, Le Sueur, 

 in 18 1 8, from Lake Erie and the Niagara River. 

 He named it in honor of Petrus Artedi, the asso- 

 ciate of Linnaeus, and the " Father of Ichthy- 

 ology." The variety sisco was described and 



