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trated attention to effect its capture. In point of activity, there are several northern fishes 
that equal or excel the trout. The freshwater salmon will arouse more excitement by its evo- 
lutions and tactics, and the white-fish, pound for pound, surpasses them all in every way. The 
bass, the salmon, and the white-fish are all leapers; they leap when first hooked and they usually 
continue to leap until free or wearied by excess of energy. The trout seldom leaps from the 
water except when rising to a fly, and never more than once when hooked and not often that 
once. Sometimes when first hooked in trolling the fish will go into the air, then its action is one 
of dogged pulling and shaking. The present writer has heard of but a few instances of trout 
leaping after being hooked. Once he, himself, caught a two-pound trout on a small combina- 
tion of spoon and fly and when the trout struck and was hooked it went out of the water. In 
one of the sportsmen’s journals someone described the catching of a seven-pound trout in the 
Rangeley Lakes. It was stated that the fish jumped full length in the air. At the time there 
were one hundred feet of line out and it took almost an hour to land the fish. It was stated 
of the 9|-pound trout caught September 1 by Thomas Barbour that it was taken on a white- 
tipped Montreal No. 2 fly with a 4^-ounce rod and that “Mr. Barbour worked 1^ hours from 
strike to finish before he had the big fellow reduced to possession.” 
There is, then, an inexpressible something in the trout besides activity or those things that 
are usually regarded as gameness that makes it such a general favorite. 
Descriptions. 
Description of Large Salvelinus fontinalis from Rangeley Stream, Maine. 
Male. — Head 3.45 in length without caudal; eye 6.58 in head; snout, 3.11; upper jaw, 1.44; 
lower jaw, curved up over end of snout, 1.45 in head; branchiostegals 12 and 11; gill-rakers 
7 -f- 10 on each side. Body stout and deep, the depth 4.07 in length without caudal; least 
depth of caudal peduncle greater than distance from adipose to caudal and slightly greater than 
distance from anal to caudal, 2.86 in head; dorsal rays 11, the longest 1.86 in head; distance 
from anal to lower base of caudal 2.94 in head; anal rays 8, the longest 2.87 in head. 
Coloration. — Top of head and back dark olive, finely vermiculated with black. Side of 
head iridescent bluish, greenish, and reddish; blue of back blending into yellowish green and 
bluish on sides, and below lateral line becoming purplish to red on sides of belly, having a blue- 
black shaded area between the red and the soiled white ventral line. Sides thickly spotted 
with yellow and with blue areola ted crimson dots; dorsal fin lighter olive than back with coarser 
black vermiculations. Adipose yellowish with black markings; caudal dark olive with wavy 
dark crossbars most intense on the upper and lower lobes, faint on the middle rays; blackish 
terminal margin, and lower ray wliite; pectoral crimson with dusky shadings; outer ray white 
