Ti)e 5 f ovn Trout— (Sa/mo Fario). 



By R. B. MARSTON, 



Editor of Fishing Gazette and Hon. Treasurer Fly Fishers' Club, London. 



" The trout is the best of all fresh water fish." — Gesner. 



"The trout is a fish highly valued, both in this and forraigne 

 Nations; he may be justly said (as the old poets said of wine, and 

 we English say of Venison), to be a generous fish ; a fish that is so 

 like the Buck, that he also has his seasons ; for it is observed, that he 

 comes in and goes out of season with the Stag and the Buck. Gesner 

 says that his name is of a Germane off-spring, and says, he is a fish 

 that feeds clean and purely, in the swiftest streams, and on the hardest 

 gravel, and that he may justly contend with all fresh water fish, as 

 the mullet may with all sea fish for precedency and daintiness of 

 taste, and that being in right season, the most dainty palates have 

 allowed it to him." — Izaak Walton. 



30ME years ago I sent some thousands of the eggs of our brown trout to the 

 United States and thanks to the great interest taken in them by my friend, 

 Mr. A. Nelson Cheney, a good quantity hatched out successfully. Brown 

 trout eggs were also sent by the late Herr von Behr, and the late Herr 

 von dem Borne from Germany to the United States, and there is no doubt that 

 the fish is established in some parts of the States. 



In his report to the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, dated May 

 15th, 1886, a superintendent of the New York Fish Commission thus refers to the 

 brown trout, Salmo fario (called also Trutta fario in Germany) : " This fish is strong, 

 quickgrowing and game, and I have on several occasions declared it to be the 

 finest trout that I have ever seen. In Europe they endure waters considerably 

 warmer than our Atlantic brook trout ( S. foritinalis) can stand." 

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