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sprightliness when in the water, reckless dash with which it 
springs from the water to meet the descending fly ere it strikes 
the surface, and the mad and repeated leaps from the water 
when hooked, the rainbow trout must ever hold a very high rank. 
“The gamest fish we have ever seen,” writes Dr. Evermann, ‘‘ was 
a 16-inch rainbow taken on a fly in a small spring branch tribu- 
tary of Williamson River in southern Oregon. It was in a 
broad and deep pool of exceedingly clear water. As the angler 
from behind a clump of willows made the cast the trout bounded 
from the water and met the fly in the air a foot or more above 
the surface; missing it, he dropped upon the water, only to 
turn about and strike viciously a second time at the fly just as 
it touched the surface; though he again missed the fly, the 
hook caught him in the lower jaw from the outside, and then 
began a fight which would delight the heart of any angler. His 
first effort was to reach the bottom of the pool, then, doubling 
upon the line, he made three jumps from the water in quick 
succession, clearing the surface in each instance from one to 
four feet, and every time doing his utmost to free himself from 
the hook by shaking his head as vigorously as a dog shakes a 
rat. Then he would rush wildly about in the large pool, now 
attempting to go down over the riffle below the pool, now 
trying the opposite direction, and often striving to hide under 
one or the other of the banks. It was easy to handle the fish 
when the dash was made up or down stream or for the opposite 
side, but when he turned about and made a rush for the protec- 
tion of the overhanging bank upon which the angler stood it 
was not easy to keep the line taut. Movements such as these 
were frequently repeated, and two more leaps were made. But 
finally he was worn out after as honest a fight as trout ever 
made.” 
“The rainbow takes the fly so readily that there is no reason 
for resorting to grasshoppers, salmon-eggs, or other bait. It is 
a fish whose gaminess will satisfy the most exacting of expert 
anglers and whose readiness to take any proper line will please 
the most impatient of inexperienced amateurs.” 
The steelhead (Salmo rivularis) is a large trout, reaching 
twelve to twenty pounds in weight, found abundantly in river 
estuaries and sometimes in lakes from Lynn Canal to Santa 
