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OUR FRONT COVER DESIGN. 
The front cover of Forest and Stream this 
week is given up to a beautiful reproduction of 
the American Saibling or Sunapee trout, Salve- 
linus Alpinus Aureolus. Our reason for repro¬ 
ducing this picture, which represents the fish in 
all the rosy glory of its nuptial coloring, is that 
it forms, without doubt, one of the most beautiful 
of the American Salvelinus family. The original 
painting from which the plate was made is by 
Denton, an artist whose skill in portraying fish 
life has never been surpassed. The saibling, or 
golden trout, first came under the notice of 
anglers and scientists in 1882 when it was found 
in large numbers at Lake Sunapee, New Hamp¬ 
shire. It has been investigated and classified by 
many scientists,, but the best descriptions have 
been written by Dr. John Duncan Quackenbos of 
Columbia University, New York. In the course 
of a long article on the trout, Dr. Quackenbos 
says: 
The distinguishing features of the Sunapee 
charr are: The presence of a broad row of teeth 
on the hyoid bone, between the lower extremi¬ 
ties of the first two gill arches; the absence of 
mottling on the dark sea-green back and exces¬ 
sively developed fins, inconspicuous yellow spots, 
without blue areola; a square or slightly emar- 
ginate tail; a small and delicately shaped head, 
diminutive aristocratic mouth, liquid planetary 
eyes, and a generally graceful build; a phenom¬ 
enally brilliant nuptial coloration, recalling the 
foreign appellations of “blood-red charr,” “gilt 
charr,” and "golden saibling.” As the October 
pairing 'time approaches, the Sunapee fish be¬ 
comes illuminated with the flushes of maturing 
passion. The steel green mantle of the back and 
shoulders now seems to dissolve into a veil of 
amethyst, through which the daffodil spots of 
mid-summer gleam out in points of flame, while 
below the lateral line all is dazzling orange. The 
fins catch the hue of the adjacent parts, and pec¬ 
toral, ventral, anal, and lower lobe of caudal, are 
marked with a lustrous white band. It is a unique 
experience to watch this American saibling 
spawning on the Sunapee shallows. Here in all 
the magnificence of their nuptial decoration, flash 
schools of painted beauties, circling in proud 
sweeps about the submerged boulders they would 
select as the scenes of their loves—the poetry of 
an epithalamion in every motion—in one direc¬ 
tion, uncovering to the sunbeams in amorous 
leaps their golden-tinctured sides, gemmed with 
the fire of rubies; in another, darting in little 
companies, the pencilled margins of their fins 
seeming to trail behind them like white ribbons 
under the ripples. There are conspicuous differ¬ 
ences in intensity of general coloration, and the 
gaudy dyes of the milter are tempered in the 
spawner to a dead-lustre cadmium cream or olive 
chrome, with opal spots. The wedding garment 
nature has given to this charr is unparagoned. 
Those who have seen the bridal march of the 
glistering hordes, in all their glory of color and 
majesty of action, pronounce it a spectacle never 
to be forgotten. 
The Sunapee sailfling takes live bait readliy, 
preferring a cast smelt in spring, when it pur¬ 
sues the spawning osmerus to the shores. As far 
as is known, it does not rise to the fly, either at 
this season, or when on the shoals in autumn. 
Through the summer months, it is angled for 
with a live minnow or smelt, in sixty to seventy 
feet of water, over a cold bottom, in localities 
that have been baited. While the smelt are in¬ 
shore, trolling with a light fly-rod and fine tackle, 
either with a Skinner's fluted spoon, No. 1, or a 
small smelt on single hook, will sometimes yield 
superb sport, as the game qualities of the white 
trout are estimated to be double those of the 
fontinalis. The most exhilarating amusement to 
be had with this charr, after the first hot June 
days, is in trolling from a sailboat with a green- 
heart tarpon rod, 300 feet of copper wire of the 
smallest calibre on a heavy tarpon reel, and at¬ 
tached to this a six-foot braided leader with a 
Buell’s spinner, or a live minnow on a stiff gang. 
The weight of the wire sinks the bait to the re¬ 
quisite depth. When the sailboat is running 
across the wind at the maximum of her speed, 
the sensation experienced by the strike of a four 
or five-pound fish bankrupts all description. A 
strong line under such a tension would part on 
the instant; but the ductility of the wire averts 
this accident, and the man at the reel end of the 
rod experiences a characteristic “give,” quickly 
followed by the dead-weight strain of the frenzied 
salmonoid. To land a fish thus struck implies 
much greater patience and skill than a successful 
