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The Lake Trout 
C OME here, you beauty,” many a 
fisherman has said as this gamy 
and beautiful fish swam away with 
the line. There are brook trout, as well as 
lake trout, and they are even prettier than 
these. The color of these is a dark green, 
shading up to silvery, and those round spots 
on his side are orange, sometimes pale and 
sometimes bright. In the cold, fresh waters 
of this land this fish is found. Some of them weigh almost a hundred 
pounds, but most not more than twenty. Big or small, they always strug¬ 
gle against being caught. 
The Water Buck 
The Black Bass 
Y OU will have to be a good fisherman if you land a striped bass, for 
he has ways of fighting that are all his own, and he is game to the 
end. He is found in the waters on both coasts of the United States. 
He is somewhat olive color above, but his 
sides are yellowish silvery, and the upper 
two-thirds of his body has seven straight 
black stripes upon it, running from head to 
tail. He is a large fish, weighing sometimes 
ninety pounds. In the water his sides look 
brassy-tinged. His fins are all pale, and with 
his graceful form and silvery white sheen 
under the other tints, he is a handsome fish. 
S TRONG and stalwart he looks, this 
buck that lives in the large swampy 
plains and lowlands of Africa. And 
he is strong, for often he clambers up steep, 
stony hills, perhaps a mile away from the 
nearest water. He does that with great 
speed, too, for he is very sure-footed, like 
all of the many kinds of an-te-lope. He 
likes the coarse grass and the tall reeds, and 
he wallows in swamps where no one else, man or beast, can go. If he is 
attacked when on land, he will make for the nearest water. 
