A SILVER TROUT. 



Enclosed find print of trout caught at 

 the opening of season in the Truckee 

 river, a few miles below Truckee, Cali- 

 fornia, by a friend of mine. I had the 

 pleasure of taking the picture. You will 

 see the trout is nearly 3 feet long, and 

 it weighed nearly 12 pounds, dressed. 



There perhaps are larger fish in the 

 Truckee, but this is the largest one I 

 have seen. I prize the picture because 



1 took it myself and know it is genuine. 



M. Sanderson, Sacramento, Cal. 



In their "Fishes of North and Middle 

 America," Jordan and Evermann recognize 



2 different species or subspecies of trout as 

 inhabiting Lake Tahoe and its tributary 

 streams. The first of these is the Lake 

 Tahoe trout, Truckee trout, or Henshaw 

 Trout, Salmo clarkii henshawi, which is 

 the ordinary trout of that basin. It is lo- 

 cally known to fishermen and anglers as 

 pogy and the young as snipe. It is said 

 to attain a weight of 3 to 6 pounds, is 

 dark in color, with coppery sides, and 

 ascends streams in the spring to spawn. 



The other form is the silver trout of 

 Lake Tahoe, described in 1898 by Drs. Jor- 

 dan and Evermann as Salmo clarkii tahoen- 

 sis. This is a large robust trout whose 

 usual home is the deep water of the lake, 

 in which it probably spawns. It is said to 

 reach a weight of 10 to 30 pounds, and is 

 a much larger fish than the common Tahoe 

 trout. The example on which Jordan and 

 Evermann based their description was 2 

 feet 4 inches long, -and weighed 7 pounds. 

 It was caught near Tahoe in Septem- 

 <her, 1894, by Mr. A. J. Bayley, of Tahoe, 

 and was presented by him to the mu- 

 seum of Leland Stanford University. 

 The largest example of this species on 

 record was caught at Tahoe in 1876. 

 It weighed 29 pounds, and was sent as a 

 present to General U. S. Grant. The fine 

 specimen photographed by Mr. Sanderson 

 was an example of this species, the silver 

 trout of Lake Tahoe. 



For detailed descriptions of the 2 spe- 

 cies see Jordan and Evermann's "Fishes of 

 North and Middle America," pp. 493 and 

 2870. Editor. 



AMATEUR PHOTO BY M. SANDER80N. 



THE BROOKLET. 

 (From the German of Goethe.) 



REV. E. L. TIFFANY. 



You brooklet, clear and silver bright, 

 You hasten past me, day and night ; 

 Pondering I stand on your brink, and 



would know, 

 Whence do you come? Where do you go? 



" I come from the lap of yon dark rocks, yet 

 My course is by moss bank and violet. 

 Upon my mirror gently floats 

 The azure heavens' fleet of boats. 



" Therefore my child mind is free from 



care, 

 I run along, I know not where: 

 He, I think, will be my guide 

 Who called me from the mountainside." 



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